T.E.D. v. EMERSON

No. 07-87-0305-CV.

746 S.W.2d 312 (1988)

T.E.D., Relator v. The Honorable Don EMERSON, Judge, 320th District Court, Potter County, Texas.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Amarillo.

February 9, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Selden B. Hale, Amarillo, for Relator.

Bob Blinderman, Canyon, for party in interest.

Pam House, Amarillo, for intervenor.

Before DODSON, COUNTISS and BOYD, JJ.


COUNTISS, Justice.

In this original mandamus proceeding, we must determine whether section 12.06 of the Family Code, Tex.Fam.Code Ann. (Vernon Supp.1988), gives the wife the right to deny the husband's paternity and to require the husband to submit to a blood test. We conclude that it does, and conditionally grant the writ.

Husband, R.F.D., Jr., filed a petition for divorce from Wife, T.E.D. in September 1986. Wife filed a cross petition in December of 1986...

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