Court Opinion

ID: 9744910
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 22:22:48.628577+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:53.313485
License: Public Domain

KIRSCH, Judge,
concurring in result.
Although I fully concur in the result set forth in the majority opinion and in the reasoning upon which it rests, I am reluctant to join with the majority in their conclusion that under no circumstances can the paternity of a child bom during an intact marriage be challenged in heirship proceedings. I have no such reluctance, however, in concluding that under the circumstances of this case, where the child was born during an intact marriage which was later judicially dissolved in a proceeding in which the decedent acknowledged paternity, the trial court abused its discretion by allowing such a challenge.