Ex Parte University of South Alabama

We granted this petition for writ of certiorari to determine the following issues:(1) Whether the remoteness of the relationship between a father and his minor daughter can serve as a basis for the father to avoid liability for necessary medical services rendered to that minor daughter.(2) Whether the totality of the circumstances in the instant case justifies the conclusion that reasonable, necessary medical services for the delivery of a full term infant to a minor mother were not "necessaries."

South Alabama Medical Center ("the hospital") filed this action against Leroy M. Patterson to…