Legal Opinion
In re D.M.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided July 13, 1989No. 85-906PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Chief Judge:
This is an appeal from the dismissal of a petition to establish paternity and the denial of a motion for reconsideration on the ground that the trial court erred in ruling that it did not have jurisdiction to determine paternity independent of a request for child support or other non-hypothetical issue contingent on the establishment of paternity. We affirm.
I
On October 31, 1984, eight days before D.M.’s twenty-first birthday, her mother N.G. filed a petition to adjudicate appellee as D.M.’s father and to “grant such other and further relief as [the court] deems…
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3Cited by9 opinions
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