California Court of Appeal

Judgment finding defendant to be the legal father of a minor female under the doctrine of parentage by estoppel is reversed where a finding of parentage by estoppel in this case is prevented by the trial court's finding that it was clear that defendant truly did not know that he was not the biological father, and only stopped acting as such when the genetic test results were received in this action.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/02/2007
• Published 07/02/2007

Judges

• O'ROURKE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• The Shaw Firm and James Thompson Shaw, Bonita, for Defendant and Appellant., Bill Lockyer and Edmund G. Brown, Jr. Attorneys General, Thomas R. Yanger, Assistant Attorney General, Paul Reynaga, Sharon Quinn, and Mary Dahlberg, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.