Npa v. Wba

How courts have described this case

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• no knowing misrepresentation to child; no detriment; claim against natural father for child support not lost
• no knowing misrepresentation to child; no detriment; claim against natural father for child support not lost
• doctrine of equitable estoppel could not be applied to require non-biological father to pay child support because he did not knowingly misrepresent to child that he was the natural father and child suffered no detriment
• evidence consisting of HLA test results which conclusively disproved paternity in conjunction with wife’s admission of intercourse with another man during the period of separation was sufficient to overcome the presumption of legitimacy
• “[T]he child suffered no detriment by having been cared for and supported during the five-year relationship where no legal duty to do so existed. In fact, the child has received the benefit of the husband’s love and support”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).