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Surrogate’s Court Orders DNA Testing to Verify Claim to Be Decedent’s Biological Child

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Can a person claiming to be the decedent’s biological child out of wedlock obtain a court order directing DNA testing of the decedent’s acknowledged children, in order to verify her claim?  In Matter of Estate of McGuire, 203...more

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“Family Affair” Takes a New Twist

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In America we like to identify who we are by what we do. Thus, in almost every encounter when we meet new people the question turns to: “What do you do?” In my case, when the answer is 40 years of family law, the response is...more

Downey Brand LLP

Cohabitation Required for “Marital Presumption” to Bar Heirship

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Who’s your father for inheritance purposes in California? Family Code section 7540(a) states that “the child of spouses who cohabited at the time of conception and birth is conclusively presumed to be a child of the...more

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