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IN RE PATERNITY OF P.L.S.

No. 89-1246.

158 Wis.2d 712 (1990)

463 N.W.2d 403

IN RE the PATERNITY OF P.L.S.: R.M.J., II, Appellant, v. STATE of Wisconsin, K.M.S. and P.L.S., Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided October 25, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellant the cause was submitted on the briefs of Rusch & Rusch Law Office, S.C., by Robert P. Rusch, of Medford.

For the respondent the cause was submitted on the briefs by Lawrence R. Heath, corporation counsel for Oneida county, of Rhinelander.

Before Eich, C.J., Gartzke, P.J., and Sundby, J.

GARTZKE, P.J.

J. appeals from an order denying his motion to vacate a judgment in a paternity action declaring him to be the father of a child born in April 1982 to a named mother. He contends that the judgment is void because his trial counsel was ineffective. The dispositive issue is whether the respondent in this paternity action has a constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel. We conclude he does not. We therefore affirm.

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