Commonwealth of Virginia v. Autry

How courts have described this case

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• finding that one of the main purposes of the paternity statutes “is to shift the burden of support from the taxpayers to the parents of the illegitimate child”
• stating “as conceded by the father here, a duty of support is imposable by a responding state court in a URESA proceeding even though no previous order of support exists”
• the duty to support a child born out of wedlock, as between a stepfather and a biological father, is on the biological father
• one purpose of Paternity Act is to shift burden of support from the taxpayers to parents of children born out of wedlock
• cases involving judicial termination of duty of support for failure to honor visitation rights are “inapposite” to case not involving violation of visitation rights
• court proceeding under uniform act may impose duty even though previous support judgment vacated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).