JUDGE LAKE: You may be seated.
JEROME: Hello, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: Hello.
JEROME: This is the case of Hauser v. Campbell.
JUDGE LAKE: Thank you, Jerome. Good day, everyone.
AUDIENCE: Good day.
JUDGE LAKE: Ms. Houser, you claim your ex-husband
unexpectedly walked out on you when your son,
Michael Campbell was five months old.
You say your son
has had medical problems since he was a child.
And you have petitioned the court for a DNA test
in order to hopefully find a solution
for a life debilitating condition.
Is that correct?
Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: Mr. Campbell, you say you've never believed the plaintiff's son
belonged to you and today's result
will prove your case and clear your name.
Is that correct?
Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: So Ms. Hauser, how positive are you
that the defendant is your son's father?
100% Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: You are? Explain.
Mr. Campbell and I met when I was a junior and he was a senior in high school
and what ended up happening was
mid to late July, early August,
I became pregnant.
We discussed it and
we figured out
to get married. We eloped.
JUDGE LAKE: And why did you make that decision?
Because Mr. Campbell's father hated me.
Really?
HAUSER: Oh, yes. Absolutely could not abide me.
They didn't even know you were getting married at all?
No, they didn't know I was pregnant then either.
They did not.
HAUSER: No, ma'am, they did not, Your Honor.
And so you made the decision Mr. Campbell to elope
with Ms. Hauser?
Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: You knew she was pregnant.
And your family, they were not fond of this union.
My father wasn't, no.
And so, you're pregnant.
HAUSER: Yes ma'am.
You get married.
JUDGE LAKE: Did you get married because you were in love or
did you get married because you found out you were pregnant?
I actually thought it was both, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: How about you, Mr. Campbell?
I would agree with that, I thought it was both.
JUDGE LAKE: You did?
Yes.
So, when you got married
because of the baby and also because you loved her
did you think you were this child's biological father?
No.
JUDGE LAKE: You did not?
No, I never believed for one second it was.
JUDGE LAKE: Ms. Houser, you seem surprised.
Oh, very surprised.
If Mr. Campbell was not Michael's father,
why did he sign the birth certificate?
Why, when we got divorced
did Mr. Campbell and his family try to get custody
of Michael?
Mr. Campbell?
That is complete...
JUDGE LAKE: Did you sign the birth certificate?
No, ma'am, I was in basic training in the army when Michael was born.
JUDGE LAKE: Did anybody bring a copy of this birth certificate?
Yes, ma'am, I did.
JUDGE LAKE: Jerome, let me see that.
JUDGE LAKE: So wait, Ms. Houser, you're saying that Mr. Campbell
signed the birth certificate?
HAUSER: The army base of Fort Jackson
supplied a copy of it and they sent it back
to the state of Missouri and that is what it looks like now.
And Mr. Campbell, you say you weren't aware of this?
No, ma'am, I've never seen that.
You've never seen the birth certificate?
Well, I have one...
At home now.
But I didn't for many, many years.
So you know Dennis R. Campbell is listed as father.
Yes, but I didn't list me on there.
I was in basic training.
I had no idea...
JUDGE LAKE: You don't remember receiving...
No.
An acknowledgment or anything to sign?
No, ma'am, I do not.
But at that time, you all were married?
JUDGE LAKE: So the child was born within the marriage?
Yes, ma'am we were.
Yes, Your Honor.
Yes.
JUDGE LAKE: So I want to understand this, you're saying
you knew as soon as you married her that this wasn't your child.
Yes, ma'am.
JUDGE LAKE: So why marry a woman
who's pregnant with
another man's child and you don't believe it's...
There's any possibility that it's yours?
She was my first love and
we were kids and I thought
you know, we would make the perfect
high school romance, live together forever...
CAMPBELL: Ignorance is youth, king of thing.
That's very well put.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
That's very well put.
And there are no other possibilities?
No, ma'am, there is not.
So Mr. Campbell I would like to understand your doubt. Why do you doubt?
Well, when Peggi and I were together
we broke up right after I graduated.
Before summer had started.
And we didn't get back together until
August of 1980.
So there is just no possible way the timing would have worked out.
When you do the math and count back
from the date of birth,
you were not together is what you're saying?
That is correct.
You don't see it that way, Ms. Hauser?
HAUSER: No, ma'am I don't.
JUDGE LAKE: How do you remember it?
I just don't understand how Mr. Campbell can say
that we were broke up. We were not broke up.
We were together.
When was the first time you heard he had doubts?
Because he married you and...
Four years ago.
Really?
HAUSER: Yes, Your Honor.
What happened?
I had finally contacted him because Michael had questions about
his medical conditions.
He wanted to know if I could get a hold of his dad
to get some kind of a copy of the family medical history.
Because Michael is disabled.
And he has been practically all his life.
That's when I first heard from Mr. Campbell.
"Why would I send that?"
"He's not my kid!"
HAUSER: At the time, Michael was 31 years old.
And I'm sorry,
it pissed me off.
And I can see that it really hurts you as well.
Oh, yes ma'am.
I was
faithful to this man the entire time we were together.
We never broke up, Dennis, you know it.
And to be literally called
a whore?
And stated to my son that I am?
No, that ain't working.
We're gonna prove this.
(AUDIENCE APPLAUDS)
JUDGE LAKE: The point when you and Mr. Campbell
were married...
Yes, ma'am.
And Michael is born...
Mmm-hmm.
Where does the relationship go wrong? How do you end up divorced?
The relationship Your Honor,
went bad when I joined
Mr. Campbell in South Carolina
while he was enlisted.
And then when Michael was
four months old
I moved in to a mobile home court.
With a boyfriend and a girlfriend and one of their friends.
And Michael and I.
It was a three bedroom.
There was nothing going on
between any of us, it was just cheaper to live that way.
Mr. Campbell came to see me
because he was in the army, he was on the base all the time.
He came. He gave me some money to pay my share of the rent
and that was the last I saw him.
That was the last you saw him?
HAUSER: Yes, ma'am, until
two weeks later when I was served
with divorce papers and custody papers!
CAMPBELL: Your Honor, may I say something?
Yes, please, sir.
During the time that Peggi and I were originally
dating, before we ever got married
we had split up because she had cheated on me.
CAMPBELL: A friend of mine had called me up and said, "Hey, I was with
"your girl last night."
Which is why we broke up.
Why I married her?
Like I said earlier, I was young,
I thought I loved her, I thought,
no matter what,
I wanted to try.
And then we broke up the second time
because that third party that she was living with in South Carolina,
I ended up catching them in bed together.
JUDGE LAKE: Really?
CAMPBELL: Yes.
JUDGE LAKE: What happened?
Well, I came home from leave unexpectedly one weekend
and I came in and
Peggi was in bed with her shirt off
and, uh, this gentleman was walking out of the bedroom with his shirt off.
Did that happen, Ms. Hauser?
No, ma'am, it did not.
CAMPBELL: Yes, it did.
What was your recollection of it, Ms. Hauser?
He came home,
unexpectedly as he said.
He was playing with Michael.
He met the couple and the other gentleman I was living with.
He jumped to conclusions the minute he met this man.
Even though, he and I, and the couple that were with us
denied it.
Was anyone's clothes off at the time?
No!
So Mr. Campbell, you say you remember this happening.
CAMPBELL: Very well, yes.
And what was your response when you saw this?
Well I started yelling at her I'm sure and I
packed up my stuff and left, basically.
JUDGE LAKE: What was life like, Ms. Hauser? You're a single mom at this point,
with a child that has medical,
uh, challenges.
After the divorce,
I went back to Wisconsin, where I had grown up part of my life.
And I still have friends there.
And...
Michael had a cast on his left leg
from the time he was one hour old.
He was born
with a deformity where his leg was wrapped around his stomach
to his back.
HAUSER: He was without
a third of his ligaments and a third of his tendons.
HAUSER: And, as he got older,
we noticed something wasn't right.
He ended up having a rare form of epilepsy.
JUDGE LAKE: Okay.
On top of it, so we're dealing with that.
And then when
he turned 12, he had
first diagnosis of
manic depression.
I can imagine this has been
taxing, I mean literally,
physically...
HAUSER: Mmm-hmm.
Financially...
JUDGE LAKE: Financially, emotionally.
Mmm-hmm.
JUDGE LAKE: And you've been through a lot.
Did Mr. Campbell
ever help?
HAUSER: No.
JUDGE LAKE: Paid child support?
He paid child support to the state of Wisconsin
because I had Michael on social services
because I couldn't afford his meds.
I really couldn't.
And in fact,
my husband and I had to file for bankruptcy.
Because we couldn't take care of the bills.
So Mr. Campbell, did you know this was going on?
Well, no, I wasn't aware that she had
issues such as that.
Peggi and I, oh, sorry. Mrs. Hauser and I.
We never really spoke after we divorced.
So I really didn't
know what was wrong with Michael.
Paid child support but you never asked.
CAMPBELL: That is correct.
He paid child support, Your Honor, but he fought it
every time he had a chance.
HAUSER: Your Honor, I couldn't find Mr. Campbell.
I knew from our previous emails that he had a son named Brian.
That's how I contacted him four years ago.
And he's here today.
Sir, will you please stand.
(CLEARS THROAT)
Thank you for joining us, today.
Do you believe that
Michael, Ms. Hauser's son,
is also your father's biological son?
No, I do not Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: You don't, why?
Um, just based on
all the history and, um,
everything I've known of my father.
I, I mean...
He's been a great father.
So you feel because of the way your father has treated you,
you think he would never
do this to another child that would,
could possibly be his biological child?
Yes, Your Honor.
I have some photographs, Your Honor.
On the resemblance between my son and...
JUDGE LAKE: I'd like to see that, Jerome.
And these are photographs of?
HAUSER: Michael.
HAUSER: As a teenager and Dennis as a teenager.
AUDIENCE: Wow!
JUDGE LAKE: And you believe you see a resemblance?
There is a resemblance there.
But Michael also looks
like Mr. Campbell's father.
As he got older.
JUDGE LAKE: Do you see a resemblance, Mr. Campbell?
No, Your Honor, I don't.
(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
JUDGE LAKE: How about you Brian?
Maybe somewhat.
I...
(AUDIENCE LAUGHS)
The only thing he didn't get is your nose.
HAUSER: He got mine. It's a little bit pugged.
So Mr. Campbell...
CAMPBELL: I have one.
When you walked out
you know, when Michael was five months old
and you decided to leave the marriage, did you just
close the door completely and never look back.
And you just kind of
consider... It feels like you considered this child support just
tax you had to pay
on a marriage you shouldn't have gotten yourself in.
Well, something along those lines, yes.
So Ms. Hauser,
Yes, Your Honor.
You are 100% sure that Mr. Campbell
is Michael's biological father...
HAUSER: Yes, Your Honor.
JUDGE LAKE: And Mr. Campbell you are 100% sure you are not?
That is correct.
Well listen, I'm happy you're here today.
And I'm happy that we can bring you one step closer
to hopefully resolution and
figuring out how to move forward.
It just, there seems like there's so much animosity.
So much... It's, it's like...
JUDGE LAKE: So much time has passed.
There's so much history and then there's so little.
HAUSER: Yes.
Beause it's that you've gotten married...
HAUSER: Mostly.
and then you (CLAPS)
Just separated and never looked back.
JUDGE LAKE: We've got to get this straightened out.
I think it's time to go to the results, Jerome.
JUDGE LAKE: Thank you.
JEROME: You're welcome.
JUDGE LAKE: These results were prepared by DNA diagnostics
and they read as follows.
In the case of Hauser v. Campbell
When it comes to Michael Campbell...
JUDGE LAKE: It has been determined by this court...
JUDGE LAKE: Mr. Campbell, you...
Are not the father.
HAUSER: Oh, my.
JUDGE LAKE: Well Ms. Hauser,
35 years.
You were so certain.
HAUSER: Mmm-hmm.
That there was no other person.
HAUSER: Yeah. JUDGE LAKE: That you had entertained
because you had been completely faithful to him. That just...
Is not true. The DNA has...
HAUSER: Yeah, I just...
Spoken!
HAUSER: I have no clue.
I don't recall anything.
HAUSER: We were never broke up, we were constantly together.
You don't have to break up to make a baby with someone.
I know. But, I... I would have to ask Mr. Campbell because
apparently he knows.
Well, this is a first.
Mr. Campbell, do you have any idea?
And I'm not saying this to be funny, I'm saying this for this child.
Because her son is
experiencing medical challenges,
severe medical challenges.
Your Honor, from what I was told because we were separated during that summer...
Someone had mentioned a name of a classmate to me.
Just give me the first name.
JUDGE LAKE: Does that ring a bell?
If it's the same one I'm thinking of, not in your life!
And plus he died two years ago.
JUDGE LAKE: All right.
This is difficult, because you are going to have to find
a way to explain this to your son.
HAUSER: Yeah.
And in that explanation, um,
you're going to have to own up to the fact that at this point in time,
you don't have any clue who his biological father is.
HAUSER: No, I don't.
JUDGE LAKE: And...
Mom, you're gonna have to do what it takes.
Ask questions.
Have a conversation with Mr. Campbell.
Call old classmates.
If my son was on the line, it would be a shame in my game.
JUDGE LAKE: I don't care.
Exactly.
This matters. We've had doctors testify in this courtroom
about how when they ask you for your medical history
it's not just because they want to know your business.
Their trying to figure out how to help you.
How to save your life.
What is the other half of your make up?
JUDGE LAKE: So that they can understand
what they can do.
HAUSER: Yeah.
To make you healthier
and whole.
This is important information for a young man
that's going through what he's going through.
And I really...
Like I said, in this moment I don't want you to
crouch or I don't want you to step back.
Because in this moment, yeah
we've discovered that, no, you weren't just with Mr. Campbell.
This is about Michael.
We have resources and counseling for you.
I want you to take advantage of it because I want you to help
him do whatever it takes
to get to his father.
I wish you the very best of luck.
JUDGE LAKE: Court is adjourned.
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