Pajak v. Pajak

NEELY, Justice:

William J. Pajak, Sr., married Patricia Schmidt in 1949, and the couple had two children, Christina and Anthony. The couple were divorced in 1954; the former Mrs. Pajak then married George Poore, who raised Christina and Anthony as if they were his own children. Although George Poore never legally adopted Christina and Anthony, when they came of age they formally changed their names to Poore.

William J. Pajak, Sr., married again in 1963 and sired two more children, Clark and William, by his second wife. Mr. Pa-jak’s second marriage also ended in divorce in 1980. In 1979, before…