Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones should take paternity take a look at, decide guidelines

DALLAS — A decide has upheld a call requiring Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones to take a paternity take a look at as a part of a authorized dispute with a 27-year-old lady who says the billionaire is her organic father.

A Texas decide on Wednesday rejected an attraction from Jones of a 2022 ruling in a paternity case introduced by Alexandra Davis, who beforehand alleged in a separate lawsuit that she was conceived from a relationship Jones had together with her mom within the mid-Nineties.

Attorneys for Jones are difficult the constitutionality of the Texas legislation that may compel genetic testing of Jones.

In March 2022, Davis sued Jones in Dallas County, asking a decide to void a authorized settlement she mentioned her mom, Cynthia Davis, reached with Jones two years after she was born. The 1998 settlement allegedly mentioned Jones would assist them financially so long as they did not publicly say he was Alexandra’s father — one thing the married proprietor of the Cowboys has denied.

Davis dropped that case a month later, saying she would as a substitute search to show that Jones is her father. She quickly filed the paternity case.

Jones and his spouse, Gene, have been married in 1963. They’ve three youngsters and all have entrance workplace roles with the Cowboys. Jerry Jones, 81, is the staff president and common supervisor.

Davis’ authentic lawsuit claimed that Jones “pursued” Cynthia Davis, who was additionally married on the time, after they met whereas she was working for American Airways out of Little Rock, Arkansas.

Their settlement allegedly referred to as for Jones to pay Cynthia Davis $375,000 and for Alexandra Davis to obtain a “sure month-to-month, annual and particular funding” from a belief till she was 21, in addition to lump sum funds when she turned 24, 26 and 28.

Attorneys for Jones mentioned Alexandra Davis has acquired “hundreds of thousands of {dollars}” from Jones in her lifetime, in line with courtroom paperwork.