IN RE PATERNITY OF N.L.B.

No. 86-2316.

140 Wis.2d 400 (1987)

411 N.W.2d 144

IN RE the PATERNITY OF N.L.B.: N.L.B., by D.N.P., her natural guardian, and D.N.P., individually, Petitioners-Appellants, v. G.B., P.K., individually, and P.K., Personal Representative of the Estate of B.L.B., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided June 10, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the petitioners-appellants the cause was submitted on the briefs of Bernard Goldstein and Robert A. Kagen of Goldstein and Kagen of Milwaukee.

On behalf of the respondents the cause was submitted on the brief of Jerome F. Barina of Barina & Schmitt of Racine.

Before Scott, C.J., Brown, P.J., and Nettesheim, J.


SCOTT, C.J.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a petition for adjudication of paternity. Because the trial court correctly held that a paternity action under sec. 767.45, Stats., may not be brought against a deceased putative father, we affirm.

The pertinent facts are brief. The paternity action was commenced as a civil proceeding by D.N.P., the mother, and by D.N.P. on behalf of N.L.B., the child. The mother's conceptive period was from October 2...

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