Collateral Attack

Community Service

A legal action to challenge a ruling in another case. for example, joe parenti has been ordered to pay child support in a divorce case, but he then files another lawsuit trying to prove a claim that he is not the father of the child. a “direct attack” would have been to raise the issue of paternity in the divorce action.

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