California Court of Appeal

Order determining presumed father status upheld even after court determined that appellant was biological father, but order determining jurisdiction reversed where appellant, an incarcerated prisoner, was denied his right to be present at the jurisdictional hearing as mandated by Penal Code section 2625(d).

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/16/2002
• Published 04/16/2002

Judges

• JOHNSON, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John L. Dodd, Tustin, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Lloyd W. Pellman, County Counsel, and Lois D. Timnick, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.