State Ex Rel. Ward v. Pape

The respondent, Scott D. Pape, appeals and assigns as error the district court’s refusal to apply retroactively the holding in Carroll v. Moore, 228 Neb. 561, 423 N.W.2d 757 (1988), that due process requires the appointment of counsel at public expense for an indigent accused of siring a child, and the resultant failure to vacate its decree declaring Pape to be the sire of two children born unto the relator, Glenda O. Ward, and ordering him to make payments toward their support. We affirm.

The decree in question was rendered on the 26th day of August 1987. Carroll was decided on the 20th day…