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State v. Howe

Citations

  • 723 P.2d 452
  • 44 Wash. App. 559

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  • construing Meacham 's hearing requirement, found that hearing with submission of affidavits and arguments of counsel, which established reasonable possibility or prima facie case of requisite sexual intercourse, sufficient to order blood testing
  • paternity statute amended legislatively to require \reasonable possibility\ standard; court determined that hearing with submission of affidavits and arguments of counsel satisfied due process
  • substantial evidence of paternity included the mother's testimony regarding the time of sexual intercourse and absence of her menstrual period thereafter
  • mother’s affidavit denying father’s paternity established Rule 35 “good cause” to order blood test
  • requiring “reasonable possibility or prima facie case”

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Judges: Schumacher

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