In Re Marriage of Johnson

Opinion

STEPHENS, Acting P. J.

Patricia M. Johnson (Patricia) appeals from that part of the judgment of dissolution of marriage to Andrew J. Johnson (Andrew) that denied her request for child support for the minor child James Joseph Johnson (Jimmy) based upon the court’s finding that Andrew was not the putative father of the child.

As Justice Tobriner (then an appellate court justice in the First District) so aptly opened the case of Clevenger v. Clevenger, “[w]e face here the difficult and unique problem of defining the duty of support which a husband owes to his wife’s illegitimate child when…