Legal Opinion
A.B. v. C.D.
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided February 25, 1998No. 96-P-1226PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpina, J.
C.D. (defendant) appeals from a judgment of the Probate Court which concluded that he was the father of A.B. (child) and ordered him to pay retroactive child support and legal fees. We affirm.
The child was born in January, 1982. In June, 1983, the Department of Revenue (department), on behalf of the mother, filed a criminal complaint, pursuant to G. L. c. 273, § 12,2 against the defendant for fathering a child with the mother out of wedlock (C.D.-I).3 The complaint was dismissed with prejudice when the defendant paid a lump sum settlement of $3,000 to the Department of Public Welfare.
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