Knill v. Knill

COLE, Judge.

We shall decide in this case whether a husband may be required to support a child who, though born to his wife during wedlock, was not sired by him.

We set forth the salient facts as follows. Charles and Cledythe Knill had been married for ten years and had two children at the time of Stephen’s birth in 1970. One and one-half years before Stephen’s birth, Charles had undergone a full vasectomy, and the parties agree that Stephen is not Charles’s son. Charles apparently forgave Cledythe for her infidelity because the marriage continued for another twelve years with Stephen being…