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Family

Apr. 17, 2002

Changing Course, DCA Favors Rights of Non-Biological Father

SAN FRANCISCO - Four-year-old Raphael P. III is named after a man who isn't his biological father but has cared for him just like a dad and wants desperately to play the role of a parent.

By Peter Blumberg
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        SAN FRANCISCO - Four-year-old Raphael P. III is named after a man who isn't his biological father but has cared for him just like a dad and wants desperately to play the role of a parent.
        Is that enough to make the senior Raphael P. a "presumed fath...

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