ESTATE OF SWIFT EX REL. SWIFT v. BULLINGTON

Nos. 32,176, 32,180.

309 P.3d 102 (2013)

2013-NMCA-090

ESTATE OF David SWIFT by Ricky SWIFT, Personal Representative, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Nicole BULLINGTON, Respondent-Appellee, and Ricky D. Swift and Mary L. Swift, Petitioners-Appellants, v. Nicole Bullington, Respondent-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

June 3, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lori Bauer Apodaca , Los Lunas, NM, for Appellants.

New Mexico Legal Aid, Inc., Petra E. Rogers , Albuquerque, NM, for Appellee.


OPINION

VANZI, Judge.

{1} In this consolidated appeal, we address whether a personal representative of a decedent's estate has standing to bring an action for an adjudication of parentage under the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act (UPA), NMSA 1978, §§ 40-11A-101 to -903 (2009). In the proceedings below, the district court dismissed a paternity action filed by Ricky Swift, the personal representative of the estate of his son, on the...

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