PATTON v. VANTERPOOL

S17A0767.

806 S.E.2d 493 (2017)

PATTON v. VANTERPOOL.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: October 16, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Allen Sanders, Jr. , ANDREWS & SANDERS LAW OFFICES, 327 West York Street, Savannah, Georgia 31419, for Appellant.

David Benton Purvis , THE MANELY FIRM, P.C., 427 E. York Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401, Michael Eric Manely , THE MANELY FIRM, P.C., 211 Roswell Street, Marietta, Georgia 30060, for Appellee.


OCGA § 19-7-21 creates an "irrebuttable presumption" of legitimacy with respect to "[a]ll children born within wedlock or within the usual period of gestation thereafter who [were] conceived by means of artificial insemination" (Emphasis supplied.) This appeal presents the question of whether that irrebuttable presumption...

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