Case Name: DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE o/b/o Frances BLANCHARD, Petitioner, v. Derrick T. CLARK, Respondent
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2004-02-11
Citations: 866 So. 2d 129
Docket Number: No. 4D03-2368
Parties: DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE o/b/o Frances BLANCHARD, Petitioner, v. Derrick T. CLARK, Respondent.
Judges: POLEN, KLEIN and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 866
Pages: 129–129

Head Matter:
DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE o/b/o Frances BLANCHARD, Petitioner, v. Derrick T. CLARK, Respondent.
No. 4D03-2368.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Feb. 11, 2004.
Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General and William B. Branch, Assistant Attorney General, Tallahassee, for petitioner.
Philip Michael Cullen, III of Philip Michael Cullen, III Chartered, Fort Lauder-dale, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The Department of Revenue, on behalf of the mother, has appealed an order requiring the parties to submit to DNA testing in order to determine paternity. This order was entered two years after a final judgment established paternity.
This case is indistinguishable from Department of Revenue ex rel. Freckleton v. Gouldbourne, 648 So.2d 856 (Fla. 4th DCA 1995), in which the trial court, two years after a judgment of paternity, ordered testing to determine paternity. We granted certiorari relief and quashed the order, stating:
Absent a showing of fraud upon the court, a paternity order is res judicata on the issue of paternity and re-litigation of paternity issues would be unauthorized in connection with a subsequently-filed motion for contempt for failure to pay court-ordered child support.
We treat the notice of appeal in this case as a petition for certiorari and, as we did in Freckleton, quash the order requiring DNA testing.
POLEN, KLEIN and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.