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· 2/26/1968

People v. Sorensen

Citations

  • 68 Cal. 2d 280
  • 437 P.2d 495
  • 66 Cal. Rptr. 7
  • 25 A.L.R. 3d 1093
  • 1968 Cal. LEXIS 162

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  • husband is lawful father of child conceived through artificial insemination born during marriage to child’s mother
  • statutory presumption that omission to support children is prima facie evidence of willfulness and without legal excuse places on defendant the burden of establishing lack of willfulness or that the omission was excusable
  • “[A] reasonable man who, because of his inability to procreate, actively participates and consents to his wife’s artificial insemination in the hope that a child will be produced whom they will treat as their own, knows that such (continued…

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