Legal Opinion
Fuller v. Fuller
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided November 12, 1968No. 4306PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MYERS, Associate Judge.
This appeal concerns the legal duty of a husband to support, after divorce, the illegitimate child of his wife horn prior to their marriage.
When the parties first met, in April 1962, appellant was four months pregnant. The baby was born in September 1962, and three months later the parties were married. In 1964 a child was horn to the marriage; the following week the parties separated. It is not disputed that appellee is not the father of the child born prior to the marriage.
Appellee instituted divorce proceedings in September 1966. Appellant did not contest the…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Clevenger v. ClevengerCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1961
- Niewiadomski v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1947
- Taylor v. TaylorWashington Supreme Court · 1961
- Peters v. District of ColumbiaDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1951
- Prager v. Smith Ex Rel. PragerDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1963
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3Cited by55 opinions
- Pope v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1979
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- T v. TSupreme Court of Virginia · 1976
- Sargeant v. SargeantNevada Supreme Court · 1972
- In Re the Marriage of CarneySupreme Court of Iowa · 1973
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