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10 Tex. J. Women & L. 69 (2000-2001)
Why Truth is Not a Defense in Paternity Actions

handle is hein.journals/tjwl10 and id is 75 raw text is: Texas Journal of Women and the Law Volume 10 Comparative Comment WHY TRUTH IS NOT A DEFENSE IN PATERNITY ACTIONSt Diane S. Kaplan* I. Introduction .............................................. 70 II. The Pennsylvania Model .................................. 73 III. The Massachusetts Model ................................ 76 IV. The New York Model .................................... 79 V . Conclusion ............................................... 81 We are all bastards, And the most venerable man which I Did call my father, was I know not where When I was stamp'd. -WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, CYMBELwE, act 2, sc. 5. t This article is based on a speech delivered at the Centre For Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford University, Michaelmas Term Seminar Series, on December 9, 1999. * Associate Professor of Law, John Marshall Law School. J.D., Yale Law School, 1975. I wish to extend my gratitude to Professor Wendy Gordon, Paul J. Liacos Scholar in Law of the Boston University School of Law, Dr. Michael Spence, Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, and Stefaan Verhulst, Director of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy and Socio-Legal Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University for making this presentation possible. I would also like to thank John Marshall Law Professors Donald L. Beschle, Walter J. Kendall, John D. Gorby, Allen Kamp, Doris Long, Paul Wangerin, and Kenneth Kandaras for their thoughtful contributions to this piece and John Marshall Law School Reference Librarians Anne Abramson and Claire Durkin for rapidly pulling many rabbits out of many hats. Finally, I wish to thank my fellow alums of the Yale Law School Class of 1975, Wendy Gordon, Tova Indritz, Peter Goldberger, Richard Zuckerman, Ted Laurence, and Phil Foster who generously and exuberantly graced this article with their wit, wisdom, and friendship.

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