Masters v. Worsley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding “[c]hildren born during the parties’ marriage are presumed legitimate, but that presumption, if rebutted, means that the non-biological father has no financial responsibility toward the child.”
• rejecting application of res judicata to a claim not litigated in earlier divorce proceeding, stating the claim “could not have been tried in the [original] divorce [proceeding] because [plaintiff] had no knowledge of the alleged facts supporting his claim”
• importance of written statement in context of motion based on multiple grounds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).