IN RE MARRIAGE OF GALLAGHER

No. 94-1272.

539 N.W.2d 479 (1995)

In re the MARRIAGE OF John J. GALLAGHER and Amy Sue Gallagher Upon the Petition of John J. Gallagher, Appellant, And Concerning Amy Sue Gallagher, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

As Corrected on Denial of Rehearing November 17, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Stuyvesant of Stuyvesant & Benton, Carlisle, for appellant.

David Odekirk and Van T. Tran, Legal Services Corp., Waterloo, for appellee.

Considered en banc.


HARRIS, Justice.

A few weeks before trial of this dissolution of marriage proceeding it was revealed that the husband was not the natural father of a child who is the subject of this custody dispute. In Petition of Ash, 507 N.W.2d 400, 403 (Iowa 1993), we rejected the equitable parent doctrine. The husband in the present case, pursuing parental rights regarding a child born during...

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