Appellate Court of Illinois· 10/8/1981

Happel v. Mecklenburger

Citations

427 N.E.2d 974
101 Ill. App. 3d 107
56 Ill. Dec. 569
1981 Ill. App. LEXIS 3476

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finding that Rule 215 was an appropriate discovery tool to compel presumed father to submit to a blood test in a paternity action
finding that Rule 215 was an appropriate discovery tool to compel presumed father to submit to a blood test in a paternity action
finding that Rule 215 was an appropriate discovery tool to compel presumed father to submit to a blood test in a paternity action
“Such difference in treatment is not a violation of equal protection principles”
where parents were divorced, but child visited father on vacations, father visited child when possible, and father “continued to shoulder the parental responsibility of the child,” court found challenge to child’s legitimacy was not in child’s best interests

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