ESTATE OF HAWK v. LAIN

No. 67879.

329 N.W.2d 660 (1983)

In re ESTATE OF Harold E. HAWK, Deceased; Margueritte Hudson; and Lois Owen, Appellees, v. Lorena A. LAIN, Appellant, and Iowa Trust and Savings Bank, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

February 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dwight W. James and William A. Wickett of James & Galligan, P.C., Des Moines, for appellant.

Ronald L. Sutphin of Peddicord, Simpson & Sutphin, P.C., Des Moines, for appellees.

James G. Milani, Centerville, for defendant bank.

Considered by LeGRAND, P.J., and McCORMICK, McGIVERIN, LARSON, and SCHULTZ, JJ.


LARSON, Justice.

The defendant, Lorena Lain, appeals from a declaratory judgment that she is not the child of the decedent, Harold E. Hawk. She argues that although she was born while her mother was married to another man, blood tests and other evidence successfully rebutted the presumption that she was the husband's child. She contends Hawk was her natural father, and she is entitled to inherit from him because (1) Hawk and her mother were married after her birth...

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