J.N.R. v. O'Reilly

Opinion of the Court by

Justice MINTON.

The Court of Appeals denied relief to a wife and her husband who petitioned to prohibit the family court from adjudicating the paternity of a man who claimed to be the biological father of a baby born to the wife. On appeal, the principal issue is whether Kentucky’s courts have jurisdiction to decide a man’s claim of paternity of a child born to a woman who, at the time of the child’s birth, was married to another man. We hold that Kentucky’s paternity statutes do not grant subject-matter jurisdiction to our courts to determine paternity claims where, as…