Callison v. Callison

Our review on certiorari addresses a disputed paternity suit. The Court of Appeals left undisturbed the trial court’s decree against the putative father (defendant), and this court’s opinion affirms that decision upon different grounds. It holds that (1) parentage, custody and support of an out-of-wedlock child may be litigated dehors the purview of a public paternity proceeding, 10 O.S.1981 §§ 71 et seq.,1 in a private *113action brought under the provisions of 12 O.S.1981 § 1277.2;2 (2) the three-year statute of limitations, 10 O.S.1981 § 83,3 determined to govern all paternity contests between…