Fairrow v. Fairrow

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• holding that a husband was entitled to relief from a support judgment when he obtained “gene testing results [pursuant to an unrelated medical procedure after the entry of dissolution,] which gave rise to the prima facie case for relief . . . independently of court action”
• granting relief from child support order to party who learned of his non-parenthood through the course of ordinary medical care
• statutes and sociological evidence favor supporting parent/child relationship; support order against adult known not to be parent is unjust
• husband entitled to relief from support judgment only in event that \the gene testing results which gave rise to the prima facie case for relief in this situation became available independently of court action.\
• delay of eleven years to file motion for relief from judgment was reasonable where the movant had no reason to believe the dissolution decree was invalid until learning of a problem years later

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).