Hunter v. Porter

In a proceeding for declaratory judgment, Noreen Judith Hunter (Noreen) sought an adjudication that she was bom out of wedlock to Joseph S. Hunter (Joseph) and Marian McKee ver (Marian), thereby to establish her right to inherit from Joseph’s estate. The plaintiff’s complaint, filed nearly twenty months following Joseph’s death, was dismissed as not having been timely filed as required by G. L. c. 190, § 7,2 and *234G. L. c. 197, § 9(a).* *3 The former statute establishes procedures for a child bom out of wedlock seeking to share in the assets of the estate of a father dying intestate; the latter…