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	Jesuit Priest Faces Child Support Payments Associated Press, carried in Spokesman Review March 3, 2007 http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=177240 Anchorage, Alaska – A judge said he would decide in about two weeks on motions in a lawsuit asking that a Jesuit priest who impregnated two women decades ago pay child support to his two grown sons. Judge Peter Ashman heard arguments Friday on motions in the case against the Rev. James Jacobson, an 83-year-old former Jesuit priest, and said he would rule by March 16. Among items he will decide is whether the statute of limitations on bringing a lawsuit had expired and whether Jacobson's vow of poverty and transfer of earnings and other assets to his religious order, and its obligations to provide for him, can make it liable for unpaid child support.
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