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- Title: Washington V. Santos
- Author : Supreme Court of Washington
- Release Date : January 11, 1985
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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Maternity has been said to be a matter of fact and paternity a matter of opinion. Although science cannot with certainty determine a child's father, it has made great strides to help ensure that the wrong man will not be held responsible.*fn1 Despite the numerous burdens and benefits of being a father, however, it is the child who has the most at stake in a paternity proceeding. In this matter, Miguel Santos appeals from denial of a motion to vacate a stipulated judgment and order of paternity entered against him on November 16, 1982. Although we find that the trial court properly denied Santos' motion to vacate the judgment based on fraud or mistake, we vacate the judgment because the paternity proceeding failed to protect the interests of the child whose paternity was in question. It would be ironic to find issues of parent-child ties are of constitutional dimension when the parents'