Perez

On June 18, 1970 Raul and Saul, twin brothers, were born at the Community Hospital of Los Angeles. Their birth certificates show that Maria Vera (Del Socorro Fernandez), the natural mother of the twins, declined to state the name of the father. However, separate certificates of baptism were issued by Our Lady Queen of Angels Church in Los Angeles on September 26, 1970, showing that Casimiro Perez was the father of Raul and Saul and Socorro Fernandez their mother.

On August 2, 1973, Perez filed an action to establish paternity, naming the State of California, Department of Health, as respondent and alleging in addition to the facts set forth above that: he was the natural father of the twins; Maria died in Tijuana on March 9, 1973; he believed the twins were with their maternal grandmother, Esperanza Vera Colin “somewhere in Mexico;” and that the Department of Health had refused his request to amend the birth certificate to show he was the father of the twins.

No person other than Department of Health of the State of California was named or served with the paternity action.

On October 19, 1973, the State of California, Department of Health, appeared and filed a general…