Curtiss National Bank of Miami Springs v. Bradford Builders, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that legal fictions regarding irrelevancy of paternity testing retains “their greatest force where there is truly an intact family attempting to defend itself against third-party intervention.”
• holding that “paternity by estoppel continues to pertain in Pennsylvania, but it will apply only where it can be shown, on a developed record, that it is in the best interest of the involved child.”
• stating paternity by estoppel continues to pertain in Pennsylvania, but it will apply only where it can be shown, on developed record, that it is in best interests of involved child
• presumption of paternity only applicable to situations in which underlying policies will be advanced, namely where there is an intact marriage to protect
• presumption of paternity only applicable to situations in which underlying policies will be advanced, namely where there is an intact marriage to protect
• “The legal fictions perpetuated through the years . . . retain their greatest force where there is truly an intact family attempting to defend itself against third-party intervention.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).