BAKER BY WILLIAMS v. WILLIAMS

No. 55982.

503 So.2d 249 (1987)

Julie Denise BAKER, an Unmarried Minor Who Sues BY Her Adult Next Friend and Mother, Caroline A. WILLIAMS v. Charles W. WILLIAMS & Leland Carroll Baker.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 18, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Booth Farese, Farese, Farese & Farese, Ashland, for appellants.

Phillip L. Tutor, Roberts & Tutor, Pontotoc, for appellees.

En Banc.


PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:

This appeal raises the question to what extent children who are not formal parties to a divorce action are bound by some aspects of the decree of divorce. More specifically, this case questions whether a child's prospective right to establish paternity is barred by the adjudication of paternity in a divorce decree. This Court answers in the negative.

Julie Denise Baker, an eleven year old minor child, suing by her mother Mrs...

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