Poole Truck Lines, Inc. v. Coates

GARY M. GAERTNER, Judge.

Appellant, Patricia Coates, appeals from a declaratory judgment entered in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis declaring Missouri’s Uniform Parentage Act (UPA), RSMo §§ 210.817 through 210.852 (Supp. 1990) provided the exclusive means through which the issue of paternity may be determined in the State of Missouri. We affirm.

The record reveals that decedent, Lanny Eplin, drove a tractor trailer for respondent, Poole Truck Lines, Inc. On July 9, 1989, the decedent was killed in a tractor trailer accident. Appellant, who allegedly lived with decedent and was 18…