J.N.R. v. O'REILLY

No. 2007-SC-000175-MR.

264 S.W.3d 587 (2008)

J.N.R. and J.S.R., Appellants, v. Honorable Joseph O'REILLY, Judge, Jefferson Family Court; and J.G.R., Real Party in Interest, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied October 23, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Ricketts, Jr., Ricketts & Platt, PLLC, Louis I. Waterman, Fore, Miller & Schwartz, Louisville, KY, Counsel for Appellants.

Honorable Joseph W. O'Reilly, Jefferson Family Court, Division 7, Louisville, KY, Counsel for Appellee, Joseph W. O'Reilly.

Troy D. DeMuth, John H. Helmers, Jr., Helmers, DeMuth & Walton, PLC, Louisville, KY, Counsel for Appellee, J.G.R., Real Party in Interest.


Opinion of the Court by Justice MINTON.

The Court of Appeals denied relief to a wife and her husband who petitioned to prohibit the family court from adjudicating the paternity of a man who claimed to be the biological father of a baby born to the wife. On appeal, the principal issue is whether Kentucky's courts have jurisdiction to decide a man's claim of paternity of a child born to a woman who, at the time of the child's birth, was married to another man. We hold...

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