Legal Opinion
Pamela P. v. Frank S.
New York Family Court
Decided October 1, 1981PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Nanette Dembitz, J.
The question in the instant paternity suit is whether a father should be liable for the support of his out-of-wedlock child, even though the mother accomplished her plan to have a baby by deliberately and falsely representing to him that she was using contraception.
Petitioner mother contends that the evidence as to her purposeful deceit, even if credited, is irrelevent to a father’s statutory duty to support his progeny. Respondent father, on the other hand, emphasizes that the Constitution as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court guarantees to…
2Cases cited44 opinions
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- McCarthy v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Meyer v. NebraskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
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