Montgomery County Probate Court documents show that Tre Bradley Hutcherson, with whom Tehan ran off with, legally changed his name to Tristan Tre Bradley due to “negative attention” he received after the pair were located by authorities in Florida.
The attorney for Tehan’s estranged husband, David, said his client is not the father, even though state records indicate the baby’s birth certificate lists him as the father.
“There has been no contemplation that David (Tehan) is the father of this child,” said the attorney, David P. Mesaros.
“The law requires there to be a genetic test, since the child is born while Tiffany is still technically married to David,” Mesaros said.
Tiffany Tehan’s attorney, Michael A. Sheets, said his client declined to comment about the recent events.
Tiffany Tehan sparked a nationwide search and national media coverage after she disappeared on April 17, 2010, following a day of shopping.
Five days later, she was found with Hutcherson. They both admitted they left their spouses and Tiffany’s then 1-year-old daughter, Alexis, and drove to Florida from Ohio.
They were found by the FBI in a Miami Beach motel and said they wanted to “start a new life.”
In the weeks after they were found, Tiffany Tehan and Hutcherson appeared in several television interviews.
Tuesday, Sheets said Tiffany Tehan does not want to comment because she is worried her statements could jeopardize the status of the divorce and custody case regarding her daughter.
Tiffany Tehan’s father, Chuck Tabor, also declined comment publicly on the issue.
Mesaros said Tiffany Tehan’s visitation has gone from supervised to monitored and that his client has legal custody.
David Tehan filed for divorce on May 7, stating his wife “has been guilty of gross neglect of duty.”
Tiffany Tehan filed a counterclaim, saying she had been “a good and dutiful wife” and that her husband was “guilty of gross neglect and extreme cruelty.”
She sought also sole custody of their daughter, child support and spousal support.
Officials said the Tehans’ divorce case could not be completed until after her pregnancy because of Ohio Revised Code 3111.03, which presumes the paternity of a child born during marriage belongs to the husband.
That presumption “can only be rebutted by clear and convincing evidence that includes the results of genetic testing.”
A motion was filed March 25 ordering testing for both Tehans and the newborn.
The next step is a pretrial conference June 5 and a final hearing Sept. 19.
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