Standifer v. Arwood

Prior to the new Ohio Parentage Act, R.C. Chapter 3111, becoming effective on June 29,1982, plaintiff-appellee, Carolyn Standifer, instituted this lawsuit alleging defendant-appellant, Orville Arwood, to be the father of a child born January 18, 1973, named Jack David Hipsher. The case came to trial in the Court of Common Pleas of Warren County, on February 24, 1983, after the effective date of the new Act. The trial court followed the new Act as controlling law.

Before trial, appellant submitted to a genetic test for the purpose of admitting into evidence the results, should his non-paternity…