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GUARD v. JACKSON

No. 34877-9-I.

921 P.2d 544 (1996)

83 Wash.App. 325

Toni Rae GUARD, Individually and as Personal Representative, Respondent, Jeffrey King Beeston, Sr., Appellant, v. John JACKSON and Cindy Jackson, Husband and Wife, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

August 26, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Belcher, Belcher, Swanson, Lackey, Doran & Lewis, Bellingham, H. Douglas Spruance, III, Spokane, for respondents.

Eugene Nelson Bolin, Jr., Seattle, for appellant.

BECKER, Judge.

Jeffrey Beeston's young son died in a car accident. Beeston, obligated to pay child support to the boy's mother, had made only occasional payments. The trial court dismissed Beeston as a plaintiff in a wrongful death suit, applying a statute that allows the father of an "illegitimate child" to recover only if the father has "regularly contributed to the child's support."1 Because...

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