Matthews Ex Rel. Matthews v. District of Columbia

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• acknowledging that there might be situations where agency, not court, could be primary forum to determine paternity for purposes of establishing benefit eligibility
• noting two issues of statutory interpretation that guided trial court’s determination to refer matter to agency under doctrine of primary jurisdiction
• applying statutory presumption to permit child born out of wedlock to offer proof that decedent putative father is his parent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).