Court Opinion

ID: 9572386
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:41:18.654729+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:32:45.226453
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SABERS, Justice
(dissenting).
I join Justice Wuest’s writing. Additionally, the 1989 amendment to SDCL 25-8-9 has retroactive effect and therefore is not applicable to Doese as an affirmative defense under SDCL 15-6-8(c). Lyons, 440 N.W.2d at 770. This does not deny Doese due process or equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution as he urges. In fact, implementation of his argument would constitute a violation of the due process and equal protection rights of the illegitimate child. See authorities set forth in Justice Wuest’s writing.