Anonymous Wife v. Anonymous Husband

GORDON, Chief Justice.

Anonymous wife and respondent-appellant husband were married prior to 1971. In 1971, the wife became pregnant with a child that all parties agree was fathered by defendant-appellee (natural father). The child was born in August 1972. The wife and husband raised the child as their own. They never requested support from the natural father, nor did the natural father ever volunteer to raise the child as his own or to contribute to the child’s support.

The wife filed a petition for dissolution of the marriage in 1981. The husband denied paternity of the child. The wife and…