G.E.B. v. S.R.W.

The child brought an action in the Probate and Family Court Department for a judgment of paternity under G. L. c. 209C (1994 ed.).2 The complaint was amended *160to name the mother as a plaintiff in response to the defendant’s claim that the child could not litigate on her own behalf but rather only through a next friend. The putative father (defendant) moved to dismiss the child’s action on the ground that the action is barred by his previous action for declaratory relief brought in June, 1982, against the mother and by the settlement agreement that followed. The defendant also argued that the…