Holland v. Holland

This case concerns the proper legal standard to be applied by a trier of fact in determining the paternity of a child born to a married woman. The plaintiff husband in a dissolution action was adjudged the father of a child born to the defendant wife although both parties denied his paternity. He now appeals that judgment to this court on both evidentiary and constitutional grounds.

Although the record below is sparse, the following evidence was available to the state trial referee sitting as trier of fact. Vicki Hill and Timothy Holland were married in February, 1976 and had one child, born…