STATE ex rel. DEPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES v. HERNANDEZ

STATE ex rel. DEPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES v. HERNANDEZ
2003 OK CIV APP 35
68 P.3d 229
Case Number: 97351
Decided: 03/13/2003
Mandate Issued: 04/10/2003
DIVISION III
THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA, DIVISION III

State of Oklahoma, ex rel., DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, Child Support Enforcement, Plaintiff/Appellee,
v.
GILBERT SANTANA HERNANDEZ, Defendant/Appellant.

APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF BLAINE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA

HONORABLE RONALD FRANKLIN, TRIAL JUDGE

REVERSED AND REMANDED

Dorinda K. Morris, Fairview, Oklahoma, for Plaintiff/Appellee,
Randolph S. Meacham, Clinton, Oklahoma, for Defendant/Appellant.

OPINION

ADAMS, Presiding Judge

¶1 This is an appeal from a trial court order which affirmed an administrative order issued by the Office of Administrative Proceedings: Child Support (OAH) in an action filed by the Child Support Enforcement Division of the Department of Human Services (DHS) against Gilbert Hernandez, seeking to establish his paternity of a child born to Bege Flynn (Mother) in November of 1987. The OAH order only determined Hernandez was the child's father and left unresolved the issue of child support for subsequent hearing, even though DHS had requested a child support order in its application.

¶2 Hernandez's appeal from the OAH order was authorized, if at all, by the provisions of

¶3 We have a duty to inquire into the jurisdiction of the district court in this case. Muskogee Fair Haven Manor Phase I, Inc. v. Scott,

¶4 An order that resolves less than all of the issues arising out of a controversy between the parties may not generally be treated as a final order. Mann v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company,

REVERSED AND REMANDED

JOPLIN, C.J., and BUETTNER, J., concur.