Markert v. Behm

OPINION

PARKER, Judge.

This appeal is taken from the trial court’s dismissal of appellants’ action challenging the paternity of respondent, who is the presumptive father of the child in question and who was also adjudicated the child’s father in a prior divorce proceeding. The trial court held that the doctrines of collateral estoppel, equitable estoppel, and res judicata barred appellant mother from challenging the previous adjudication of paternity, and that appellant putative father lacked standing to bring a paternity action. We affirm.

FACTS

Linda and Alan Markert were married on November…