Clevenger v. Clevenger

Decided 1961-03-03

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TOBRINER, J. We face here the difficult and unique problem of defining the duty of support which a husband owes to his wife’s illegitimate child when the husband, from the date of the birth of the child, accepts the child into his family, publicly acknowledges the child as his own and treats the child as if he were legitimate. We shall point out that while under some circumstances th…

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