| Paternity Statutes Do Not Apply to Wrongful Death Actions ...
It seems that, in addition to proving wrongful death, when the decedent is an unborn child, you had better be able to prove paternity as well. In the case, Aranda v. Cardenas, both the mother and her unborn child were apparently subject to fatal medical malpractice. The Defendants, however, disputed whether the unborn child's father was indeed the child's father, raising the affirmative defense of capacity to sue. The Defendants were able to pursued the trial court to apply very harsh statutory presumptions and other requirements imposed by the paternity statutes, A.R.S. ยงยง 25-801 through 25-818, to the paternity dispute in the wrongful death case. On appeal, the Plaintiff argued that the trial court erred in referring to the paternity statutes and in requiring deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) tests to prove paternity.
One Native Life
I fell in love when I was 7. I mean really and truly in love. It was the kind of rapturous love that changes the lighting in your world and makes everything sharper, clearer, like it never existed in quite that way before, or ever will again. Some people call it ''puppy love'' to make light of it, but I've come to know enough of dogs in my time to know that puppies love truly and unconditionally. And it's true for human puppies, too.
Her name was Wilhemina Draper, and everyone called her Billie. Billie Draper was the most popular kid in our class. She had brownish-blonde hair cut in a bob and big blue eyes that sparkled when she laughed, which was all tinkly and musical. I was awed by her. She could outrun everyone and she learned how to skin-the-cat on the monkey bars before any of the boys would even try it.
Sue Hutchison: Smart comedy ought to be serious about abortion
It's not often that I go to see a comedy that makes me laugh so hard I almost blow Diet Coke and popcorn through my nose and yet frustrates me so much that I leave the theater wrung out and let down. That's how I felt after I saw "Knocked Up," a movie that is far smarter and funnier than its central premise. In case you haven't seen the reviews or the raging discussion about it in the blogosphere, "Knocked Up" is the story of an attractive young TV reporter who gets pregnant after a drunken one-night stand with a good-natured slacker whom she meets in a bar -- and she decides to have the baby. The option of having an abortion is barely even mentioned, and she proceeds to drag the slacker into the gynecologist's exam room with her for her first ultrasound. Suddenly, she expects him to be a part of her life and the baby's.
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