R.A.C. v. P.J.S.

Under the New Jersey Parentage Act of 1983 (Parentage Act), N.J.S.A 9:17-38 to -59, a person determined to be the biological father of a child can be compelled to pay child support. The Parentage Act’s statute of repose, N.J.S.A. 9:17-45b, requires that *87a support claim be filed before the child turns twenty-three years old. A number of years after the expiration of the period of repose, plaintiff in this case learned that he was not the biological father of the child he had raised as his son. Thereafter, plaintiff filed a child-support-reimbursement claim, and other related claims, against…