Court Opinion

ID: 9857597
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 15:47:54.777906+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:51:43.313304
License: Public Domain

SUSANO, Judge,
concurring.
I wholeheartedly agree with the result reached by the majority and the reasoning advanced to support that result. I also believe that the trial court’s decision can be justified as a proper response to the appel-lee’s Tenn.R.Civ.P. 60 motion. I believe that the motion was properly predicated on Tenn. R.Civ.P. 60.02(3), i.e., the “judgment is void”; was “made within a reasonable time”; and was sustained by the clear and convincing proof, i.e., the results of the blood tests and the admission of John William Witt that he is the father of Dustin Levi Witt. This proof convinces me that the parties joined in a blatant untruth in their marital dissolution agreement, and that their agreement to bastardize their child was, consequently, against the public policy of this state. Hence, it is void for all the reasons mentioned by the majority.