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SYRKOWSKI v. APPLEYARD

Docket No. 71057.

420 Mich. 367 (1985)

362 N.W.2d 211

SYRKOWSKI v. APPLEYARD

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided January 17, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Noel P. Keane, P.C. (by Noel P. Keane and Robert S. Harrison), for the plaintiff.

John R. Hayes for the defendant.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, Eugene Krasicky, First Assistant Attorney General, and George M. Elworth, Assistant Attorney General, for intervening defendant State of Michigan.

Williams, Schaefer, Ruby & Williams (by James P. Cunningham) for intervening defendant Roger A. Appleyard.

PER CURIAM:

The legal issue presented to us in this case is simple: does the circuit court have subject-matter jurisdiction over a biological father's Paternity Act1 request for an order of filiation declaring his paternity, when the biological mother and father have entered into a "surrogate parenting" agreement. The trial court and the Court of Appeals held that the circuit court lacked jurisdiction because this action is beyond the...

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