Manley v. Howard

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Juvenile Division of the Common Pleas Court of Marion County in an action to determine paternity and support of Crystal Lee Daly, a minor child about nine years of age when the action was commenced. The action has an unusual procedural history and midway in the course of the proceedings, the legislature adopted the so-called Uniform Parentage Act, effective June 29, 1982. Most of the problems involved in this appeal concern this procedural ambiguity.

The action was first commenced on February 18,1982, by a complaint in the common pleas court entitled…