Texas Supreme Court

Kathleen Gresham Dreyer, as Next Friend of A.d.d. and A.g.d., Minor Children, Petitioner v. Philip S. Greene…

March 30, 1994871 S.W.2d 697

Summary

The Texas Supreme Court affirmed the appellate court, holding that a divorce decree finding the husband to be a parent constitutes an adjudication of biological paternity that bars a subsequent paternity suit under Tex. Fam. Code §13.44. The Court also declined to address the petitioner's constitutional claims because they were not raised in the trial court, and a dissent argued the decree should not be binding on the children.