Hampton v. Douglass

MILLER, Judge.

Appellant-respondent James Thomas Hampton, Jr. is appealing the denial of his motion to correct errors, which was aimed at correcting the denial of his motion for relief from a default judgment. The trial court granted by default Sherry Ann Douglass's (Mother) petition to establish Hampton's paternity of her son with a contemporaneous support award. Hampton claims excusable neglect, mistake and inadver-tance for his failure to appear at trial and challenges the adequacy of mother's evidence. In deciding this case, we focus on the impropriety of granting a default judgment, which…