Legal Opinion

K.A.E.M. v. J.M.C.

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided March 5, 2008No. CW07-1279Published

1Opinion of the Court

PAINTER, Judge.

| pother, J.M.C., born H., sought supervisory writs from the judgment of the Fourteenth Judicial District Court, which denied her apparent exception of prescription. We stayed all proceedings and granted the writ application for the sole purpose of consideration of this matter on the merits. Finding that the retroactive application of La.Civ.Code art. 198 would unconstitutionally strip the alleged father, K.A.E.M., of a vested right to establish paternity under the circumstances of this case, we deny the writ application, recall the stay order, and affirm the ruling of the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. W.R.M. v. H.C.V.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 2007

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