Gulla v. Fitzpatrick

How courts have described this case

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• holding as between mother and putative father, mother was estopped from denying paternity of putative father where she had held him out as child’s father
• holding as between mother and putative father, mother was estopped from denying paternity of putative father where she had held him out as child’s father
• emphasizing that the proper focus is on the relationship between father and child
• estoppel applies to grant of blood test where child born during coverture is accepted by defendant as his own
• estoppel applies to grant of blood test where child born during coverture is accepted by defendant as his own
• Rhode Island was proper forum when child and mother had resided there for two years with no indication of returning to Pennsylvania

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).