Marriage of Peterson v. Peterson

OPINION

CRIPPEN, Judge.

This appeal concerns the standing of a divorced father to obtain compulsory blood tests showing whether he is the biological parent of a 17-year old child of his former spouse. The trial court denied the father’s motion, and we affirm.

FACTS

The child’s parents were divorced in 1973, four years after their daughter was born. Twelve years later, the child indicated to appellant, her noncustodial parent, that she knew there was some question whether she was his daughter. For many years appellant had harbored doubts that he was the child’s father.

Following the child’s remark…