Davis v. Wicomico Co. Bureau

Justin Davis v. Wicomico County Bureau, No. 46, Sept. Term, 2015 Opinion by Battaglia, J. CIVIL PROCEDURE - RES JUDICATA A party’s failure to appeal a judgment entered against him in 2011 in a child-support enforcement proceeding in which the hearing Judge found that his execution of an affidavit of parentage was not the result of fraud, duress, or material mistake of fact precludes his ability under res judicata to relitigate his claim two years later in which he contested legal parentage based on the affidavit of parentage. FAMILY LAW – AFFIDAVIT OF PARENTAGE – MD. CODE ANN., FAMILY LAW §…