Nelson v. Chaney

How courts have described this case

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• holding fraud that could have been litigated in the underlying paternity suit, including that of lying about a child's parentage, is intrinsic fraud
• “Extrinsic fraud that is fraud that is collateral to the matter being tried and prevents a litigant from having a fair 6 opportunity to assert his rights at trial.”
• “The sole question before the trial court ... was whether Nelson was entitled to relief by bill of review as a matter of law. Had such a determination been made, thus allowing Nelson to re-litigate the issue of paternity, it would have been appropriate to order DNA testing.”
• “The sole question before the trial court . . . was whether Nelson was entitled to relief by bill of review as a matter of law. Had such a determination been made , thus allowing Nelson to re-litigate the issue of paternity, it would have been appropriate to order DNA testing. ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).