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Established relationship with child trumps DNA, Wisconsin court rules.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JUL-04 		Format: Online - approximately 836 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Genetic evidence alone is insufficient to establish legal fatherhood, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled recently. The court affirmed an appeals court decision that a biological father failed to establish a constitutionally protected liberty interest in his paternity. (Randy A.J. v. Norma I.J., 677 N.W.2d 630 (Wis. 2004).)

Selena, the child at the center of the custody dispute, was born in January 1998 to Randy A.J. and Norma I.J., husband and wife. The following year, Norma was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to eight years in prison; she then told Randy that he might not be Selena's father. After Randy was served with a paternity action filed by Brendan B.--with whom Norma had been conducting an affair both before and after Selena's birth--he filed for...

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