Court Opinion

ID: 9638969
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 16:00:13.644768+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:11.082963
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Robert L. Brown, Justice, concurring. Both the majority opinion and the dissent make the point that in Flemings v. Littles, 325 Ark. 367, 926 S.W.2d 445 (1996) (Flemings I), the issue of Littles’s paternity was decided against him, and that decision is law of the case. I joined a dissenting opinion in Flemings I because I was convinced that Littles did not have a blood test done in 1982 to establish paternity because he did not have the wherewithal to pay for it. The trial court found this to be the case in Flemings I. See Flemings I, supra (Brown and Roaf, JJ., dissenting). Of course, when DNA testing was eventually done, it proved conclusively that Littles was not the child’s father. I continue to adhere to that dissent and believe that the adjudication of his paternity was wrong. Hence, Littles should have no obligation to pay child support. For that reason alone, I concur with the result reached in the majority opinion.