IN RE PARENTAGE OF M.S.

No. 54794-1-I.

115 P.3d 405 (2005)

In the Matter of the PARENTAGE of M.S., a Minor Child. Kevin Hampson, Appellant, v. Shawn M. Snell and David Snell, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.

July 18, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome Chilwell Scowcroft, Attorney at Law, Bellevue, WA, Margaret Doyle Fitzpatrick, Michael W. Bugni & Associates, Seattle, WA, for Respondent.

Paige Diana Haley, Lutz Law Office PS, Federal Way, WA, Charles Kenneth Wiggins, Kenneth Wendell Masters, Shelby R. Frost Lemmel, Bainbridge Island, WA, for Appellant.


AGID, J.

¶ 1 Kevin Hampson filed a petition to establish the parentage of MS, his former paramour's daughter. The trial court dismissed the petition, finding it untimely under a recently-enacted limitations period found in RCW 26.26.530, and Hampson appeals. We conclude that because MS was born while her mother was married to another man and that man was ordered to pay child support to MS when the two divorced, MS has an adjudicated father. Therefore the applicable...

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