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IN RE PATERNITY OF C.L.L

No. 92-0082.

176 Wis.2d 224 (1993)

500 N.W.2d 351

IN RE the PATERNITY OF C.L.L.: R.D.P., Petitioner-Appellant, v. R.L.B., Respondent-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided April 8, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the petitioner-appellant the cause was submitted on the briefs of James B. Noble and Richard David Phillips, pro se, of La Crosse.

For the respondent-respondent the cause was submitted on the brief of Robert W. Swain, Jr. of Herrling & Swain, S.C. of Appleton.

Before Eich, C.J., Dykman and Sundby, JJ.

DYKMAN, J.

We granted Richard P. leave to appeal from the dismissal of his petition to determine paternity and custody of Courtney L. The issue is whether the trial court erred in dismissing the petition on the basis that it had to give full faith and credit to a Kentucky divorce decree declaring Courtney to be a child of the marriage between Rebecca B. and Billy L.

We conclude that the full-faith-and-credit clause of article IV, section 1 of the United States...

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