CLEVENGER v. CLEVENGER

Docket No. 18983.

189 Cal.App.2d 658 (1961)

11 Cal. Rptr. 707

CATHERINE M. CLEVENGER, Respondent, v. EARL J. CLEVENGER, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division One.

March 3, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marvin C. Hix for Appellant.

Sidney N. Brandis for Respondent.


TOBRINER, J.

We face here the difficult and unique problem of defining the duty of support which a husband owes to his wife's illegitimate child when the husband, from the date of the birth of the child, accepts the child into his family, publicly acknowledges the child as his own and treats the child as if he were legitimate. We shall point out that while under some circumstances the husband would be estopped to assert the illegitimacy of the child and thereby avoid...

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