GODIN v. GODIN

No. 97-147.

725 A.2d 904 (1998)

Mark A. GODIN v. Rita GODIN.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

December 24, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy J. Ryan of Brown, Cahill, Gawne & Miller, St. Albans, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Rita Godin, pro se, Enosburg, Defendant-Appellee.

Present: AMESTOY, C.J., and DOOLEY, MORSE, JOHNSON and SKOGLUND, JJ.


MORSE, J.

The question presented is whether, six years after a final divorce decree and adjudication of paternity, a father may disavow a child born during the marriage and presumed for fourteen years to have been his. We hold that he may not.

The family court denied plaintiff Mark Godin's motion to require genetic testing to determine the paternity of Christina, the child born while he was married to his former wife Rita Godin, and dismissed his complaint...

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