Hinshaw v. Hinshaw, __ S.W.3d __ (Ky. App. 2006), 2006 WL 2519221 (Ky. App.) This is Hinshaw #1, motion for discretionary review pending. Issues and Holdings: 1) Whether the former husband could have custody rights to former wife’s child even though he was not the child’s biological father. The Court held yes, the former husband...Read More

Parker v. Parker, from the Supreme Court of Florida was decided February 1, 2007. The parties married in 1996, the child was born in 1998, a 2001 divorce decree incorporated an agreement for child support and the husband did not have a paternity test until 2003. The wife’s misrepresentation of paternity was held to be...Read More

Whether a state has adopted the Uniform Parentage Act answers the question posed in Is Bio-Dad a Legal Stranger to Child Born During a Marriage?, according to this comment posted by Jeanne Hannah of Updates In Michigan Family Law: Clearly, this case boils down to the fact that the biological father, under Kentucky law, does...Read More

I received a brochure this week from Genetic Technologies, Inc. It provides genetic testing services in accordance with the Uniform Parentage Act, according to its website. It offers a self-testing kit ($50.00) for anonymous in-home testing. I thought it was interesting that the website states New York residents are prohibited from ordering paternity tests directly....Read More

An interesting and sad husband/putative father custody case is pending in Jefferson Circuit Court, Family Division and in the Kentucky Court of Appeals.Read More

Jeanne Hannah at Updates In Michigan Family Law has written more on this topic than anyone in the blawgospehere: Parentage Issues: Here We Go Again! Why We Need a Federal Putative Father Registry Acknowledgments of Parentage: Can They Protect Parent-Child Relationships? Barnes v Jeudevine: How to Deprive a Child of a Father Can a putative...Read More

The civil case of Denzik v. Denzik, 197 S.W.3d 108 (Ky., 2006) digested here permitted damages to recoup child support payments by a husband who turned out not to be the bio-dad.Read More

Michael Stevens of Kentucky Law Blog comments:Family law is tough because the choices hard, the emotions high, and the consequences grave for all concerned. First, the mother presumably knows or would have reason to suspect the paternity of the child is not conclusive just because of the presumption of conception during wedlock.Read More

Please note: I am updating this post as comments are received, so check back for updates. This is turning out to be a very interesting discussion. There are many thoughtful comments to the Who’s Your Daddy? post that I would like to highlight, so they are not overlooked. Would anyone like to weigh in on...Read More

Duped Dads Fight Back, the Time Magazine report, is available online.Read More