California Court of Appeal

In an appeal from multiple orders arising out of father-plaintiff's attempt to set aside a 1989 default judgment establishing his parentage and ordering him to pay child support and retroactive support, the orders are affirmed where: 1) the rulings on plaintiff's statutory motions to disqualify the commissioner are not appealable orders; 2) to the extent he raises a due process challenge to the impartiality of the commissioner, it is rejected; 3) the trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying his motion to vacate the default judgment because he did not establish any grounds for invoking the court's equitable power to vacate the judgment; and 4) plaintiff did not demonstrate extrinsic fraud, or even that the judgment was void because of invalid substitute service or judicial disqualification.

Appellate Information

• Published 2016/06/13

Judges

• RENNER

Court

• California Court of Appeal

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