In re Cooper-Loney

By Judge Randall G. Johnson

In this appeal from the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court of the City of Richmond, the court must decide whether to allow a putative father to maintain a proceeding to determine parentage, including the possible ordering of genetic tests, even though he previously acknowledged paternity in writing. A hearing limited to that question was held on March 2, 2001.

Rakira Mondrea Cooper-Loney was bom on July 8,1999, at Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center in Mechanicsville. On the same day and also at Bon Secours, Raphael Octavian Loney, Rakira’s…