K.E. v. J.W.

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

Appellant K.E. argues that appellee J.W. should be equitably estopped from denying paternity of K.E.’s daughter L.E. J.W. was unable to father children at the time of L.E.’s birth. L.E. was conceived through natural insemination with the aid of a surrogate father.

J.W. and K.E. began a romantic relationship in 1987 or 1988. J.W. had undergone a vasectomy before the relationship began and was incapable of naturally fathering children. J.W. expressed a continuing desire to marry K.E. starting soon after the relationship began. Before meeting J.W., K.E. had a child, B.E.,…