Legal Opinion
Hampson v. Snell
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided July 18, 2005No. 54794-1-IPublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*410¶1 Kevin Hampson filed a petition to establish the parentage of MS, his former paramour’s daughter. The trial court dismissed the petition, finding it untimely under a recently-enacted limitations period found in RCW 26.26.530, and Hampson appeals. We conclude that because MS was born while her mother was married to another man and that man was ordered to pay child support to MS when the two divorced, MS has an adjudicated father. Therefore the applicable statute of limitations is governed by RCW 26.26.540, and the petition was timely under that statute. Alternatively, the petition was timely…
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