W.R. v. H.I.

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

Appellant W.R. claims S.R.I. is his son. No one disputes his contention. He would like to establish paternity and assume the legal obligation of supporting S.R.I., a responsibility he has undertaken voluntarily for several years. The courts thus far have not allowed it.

The facts reveal that appellees H.I. and V.W .I. were married in 1965. HI. bore a son, S.R.I., in November 1984. In 1986, H.I. and V.W.I. divorced. In 1990, W.R. filed a petition to establish the paternity of S.R.I. His petition stated that he had been living with H.1I., acting in loco parentis to S.R.I.,…