Ellison v. Lopez

How courts have described this case

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• stating “justifiable reliance by the recipient upon the misrepresentation” to be essential element of establishing fraud claim.
• “Under the doctrine of paternity by estoppel, a putative father who is not a child’s biological father is estopped from challenging paternity after he has held himself out as the child’s father or provided support.”
• setting forth the elements of fraud

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).