Court Opinion

ID: 9725439
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 11:47:59.38856+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:15.341253
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KAUFMAN, Acting P. J., Concurring and Dissenting.
I concur in the judgment and that portion of the majority opinion holding that the Parentage Act as it read in 1976 precluded the compromise of a minor’s claim of paternity under Probate Code section 1431. I would also agree that a claim of paternity is not a “claim for damages, money or other property” under Probate Code section 1431. In other respects, however, I cannot ascribe to the propositions stated in the opinion. In particular I cannot agree that a claim against a parent can in no case be a claim against a “third person,” and I certainly cannot agree that a compromise of a minor’s claim for $2,000 is necessarily patently absurd.
A petition for a rehearing was denied November 19, 1980, and the opinion was modified to read as printed above. Kaufman, Acting P. J., was of the opinion that the petition should be granted. Petitioner’s application for a hearing by the Supreme Court was denied January 21, 1981.