Supreme Court of California

The presumption of natural fatherhood under Family Code section 7611(d) is not necessarily rebutted when the presumed father seeks parental rights but admits that he is not the biological father of the child, but may be so rebutted in an "appropriate action."

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/06/2002
• Published 06/06/2002

Judges

• BROWN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Francia M. Welker, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Minor., Janet G. Sherwood and Donna Furth, San Francisco, for Northern California Association of Counsel for Children as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Minor., Shannan Wilber, San Francisco, and Joan Heifetz Hollinger for Legal Services for Children and Joan Heifetz Hollinger, individually and as Director of the Child Advocacy Clinic of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law as Amici Curiae on behalf of Minor.


• For Appellees:
  
•  Janet H. Saalfield, Sausalito, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Sheri M. Cohen for Defendant and Appellant., Richard E. Winnie, County Counsel, Tamara M. Wiggins and Anthony E. Scarr, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Frank H. Free, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Respondent.