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Last Updated: March 01, 2024, 00:00 IST
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A decide has upheld a call requiring Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones to take a paternity take a look at as a part of a authorized dispute with a 27yearold girl who claims the billionaire is her organic father.
DALLAS: A decide has upheld a call requiring Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones to take a paternity take a look at as a part of a authorized dispute with a 27-12 months-outdated girl who claims the billionaire is her organic father.
A Texas decide on Wednesday rejected an attraction from Jones of a 2022 ruling in a paternity case introduced by Alexandra Davis, who beforehand alleged in a separate lawsuit she was conceived from a relationship Jones had together with her mom within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.
Attorneys for Jones are difficult the constitutionality of the Texas legislation that will compel genetic testing of Jones.
In March 2022, Davis sued Jones in Dallas County, asking a decide to void a authorized settlement she stated her mom, Cynthia Davis, reached with Jones two years after she was born. The 1998 settlement allegedly stated Jones would assist them financially so long as they didn’t publicly say he was Alexandra’s father — one thing the married proprietor of the Cowboys has denied.
Davis dropped that case a month later, saying she would as a substitute search to show that Jones is her father. She quickly filed the paternity case.
The 81-12 months-outdated Jones and his spouse, Gene, have been married in 1963. They have three kids, and all have entrance workplace roles with the Cowboys. Jerry Jones is the workforce president and normal supervisor.
Davis’ unique lawsuit claimed that Jones “pursued” Cynthia Davis, who was additionally married on the time, after they met whereas she was working for American Airlines out of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Their settlement allegedly referred to as for Jones to pay Cynthia Davis $375,000 and for Alexandra Davis to obtain a “certain monthly, annual and special funding” from a belief till she was 21, in addition to lump sum funds when she turned 24, 26 and 28.
Attorneys for Jones say Alexandra Davis has obtained “millions of dollars” from Jones in her lifetime, in keeping with courtroom paperwork.
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