DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES v. BLAISDELL


847 A.2d 404 (2004)

2004 ME 62

DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES o/b/o Pamela Flewelling v. Jerome BLAISDELL.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: May 7, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Steven Rowe, Attorney General, James A. McKenna, Asst. Attorney General (orally), Augusta, for Dept. of Human Services.

Pamela Flewelling, Waterville, for plaintiffs.

Stephen T. Hayes, Esq. (orally), Augusta, for defendant.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and CLIFFORD, RUDMAN, DANA, ALEXANDER, CALKINS, and LEVY, JJ.


DANA, J.

[¶ 1] The Department of Human Services appeals from a judgment of the District Court (Waterville, Nivison, J.) granting Jerome Blaisdell's motion for relief from a 1996 judgment adjudicating him to be the natural father of a minor child and requiring him to pay medical expenses and child support. Following genetic testing, the parties now agree that Blaisdell is not the child's father, but DHS contends that the court erred in relieving him of...

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