Court Opinion

ID: 9935749
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-09 18:56:39.290513+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:29:17.937983
License: Public Domain

I respectfully dissent.
The Uniform Parentage Act governs actions to establish the paternity of a child. In this case, paternity had been established before this action was brought. The child was born during the marriage, and the husband/father claims the child as his own, and, clearly, paternity has been established. The psychological stability and general welfare of the child, as well as the overriding interest in affording legitimacy to children, should preclude the mother in this fact situation from bringing this action without first establishing that the husband/father is not the natural father of the child. See,Ex parte Presse, 554 So.2d 406 (Ala. 1989).