Fults

Stephanie Nicole Fults was bom to petitioner Christine Fults on October 3, 1975. The birth certificate lists the mother’s age as 17 and names David Cook, real party in interest, as the father, age 19. Petitioner and Cook have never been married nor have they ever lived together.

The District Attorney of Sonoma County filed a paternity suit on petitioner’s behalf naming Cook as defendant. 1 Cook’s answer denied paternity and he propounded a number of interrogatories, two of which, numbers 76 and 77, are the subject of the instant petition. Number 76 asks, “Have you ever had sexual intercourse with anyone with whom you were not married? If so, state the name and address of such person and the date of such intercourse.”

*902 Number 77 demands that petitioner “State the names and addresses, if known, [of] all persons with whom you have been romantically or sexually involved and the dates of such involvements.”

Petitioner objected to these interrogatories as irrelevant, embarrassing and an invasion of her privacy. In reply to another interrogatory she had stated: “I had no sexual relations with anyone other than the defendant from September 1, 1974 through March 1, 1975.”…