In this divorce proceeding, the husband, appellant Robert Gary Arnold, appeals from an order of the family court that granted the wife, respondent Connie Edens Arnold, summary judgment on the issue of the paternity of a child born during the marriage of the parties. We reverse and remand.
Husband and wife were married on October 13, 1972. Some seven months later, the wife gave birth to a daughter, Tressy Lee Arnold. The parties separated in early 1981. In March 1981 the wife sued the husband for a divorce, custody of Tressy, support for Tressy and other relief. By order dated April 3, 1981, the wife was awarded temporary custody of Tressy and the husband was ordered to pay tempo*298rary child support. Thereafter, the parties reached an agreement regarding custody, support and other matters and submitted their agreement to the family court which approved it on October 2, 1981. The order approving the agreement provided for merger of the order into any future divorce decree. Neither of these orders was apppealed. The divorce proceeding was dismissed at that time by consent of the parties.
In February of 1982, the wife filed a petition in which she again sought a divorce and requested incorporation of the October order into the divorce decree. The husband answered, denied that he was the father of Tressy and by counterclaim asked that the October 2, 1981, order be vacated based on the wife’s oral and written misrepresentations both before and during the marriage that he was the natural father of Tressy.1 The wife moved for summary judgment on the counterclaim asserting that the issue raised by the counterclaim was barred by res judicata and/ or collateral estoppel based on the October 2, 1981 order. The trial judge agreed and dismissed the counterclaim. The husband now appeals contending that the trial judge committed error in precluding him from proving that he was not the father of Tressy because the wife’s misrepresentation constituted fraud on the court.
We note first that while the husband argued at oral argument that the family court had no authority to grant a motion for summary judgment, this objection was not made to the family court judge, nor was it made a basis of an exception, nor argued by the husband in his brief. We therefore hold that the husband waived his right to object to the form of the dismissal of his counterclaim since the error alleged is not jurisdictional in nature. See, Murphy v. Hagan, 275 S. C. 334, 271 S. E. (2d) 311 (1980) (failure to present an issue to the trial court precludes its consideration on appeal); Diamond v. Powell, 271 S. C. 183, 246 S. E. (2d) 233 (1978) (failure to argue an exception in a brief amounts to an abandonment of the exception); Odom v. County of Florence, 258 S. C. 480, 189 S. E. (2d) 293 (1972) (In the *299absence of a proper exception there is nothing for an appellate court to review).
We next consider whether summary judgment was available on the evidence before the family court. Summary judgment is reserved for those situations where there is no genuine issue of material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Powell v. Bonitz Insulation Co., 273 S. C. 98, 254 S. E. (2d) 311 (1979); Circuit Court Rule 44. We find that summary judgment under the facts of this case was inappropriate since the doctrines of res judicata and collateral estoppel do not bar collateral attack of a judgment based on fraud.
The leading case discussing the application of the doctrine of res judicata as it relates to an action to vitiate a decree obtained by fraud is Sea Land Services, Inc. v. Gaudet, 414 U. S. 573, 94 S. Ct. 806, 39 L. Ed. (2d) 9 (1974). There the United States Supreme Court defined the doctrine of res judicata as follows:
The rule provides that when a court of competent jurisdiction has entered a final judgment on the merits of a cause of action, the parties to the suit and their privies are thereafter bound not only as to every matter which was offered and received to sustain or defeat the claim or demand, but as to any other admissible matter which might have been offered for that purpose____The judgment put an end to the cause of action, which cannot again be brought into litigation between the parties upon any ground whatever, absent fraud or some other factor invalidating the judgment.
414 U. S. at 578-579, 94 S. Ct. at 811-12 (emphasis added); accord, Wold v. Funderburg, 250 S. C. 205, 157 S. E. (2d) 180 (1967); see also, Lowe v. Clayton, 264 S. C. 75, 212 S. E. (2d) 582 (1975).
In the instant case the trial court determined that there was no genuine question of fact pertaining to the husband’s opportunities to have litigated the question of paternity in the prior action and thus he was estopped to contest paternity at this time. The trial court made no determination whether there existed a genuine issue of fact regarding the fraud surrounding the rendition of the October order. This *300was error as res judicata would not preclude a vacation of the order if it was otherwise vitiated by the requisite fraud.2
Likewise, the application by the trial judge of the doctrine of collateral estoppel to bar the husband’s paternity claim is inappropriate. Unlike res judicata, collateral estoppel requires an issue to have actually been determined to preclude its subsequent relitigation. Lowe v. Clayton, supra. Here, there is no contention that the parties actually litigated the question of paternity in the prior suit.
We therefore hold that the trial judge’s entry of summary judgment and dismissal of the husband’s counterclaim was reversible error and remand the case to the family court for further proceedings consistent with this order. We do not intimate that on remand the trial judge may not find as a matter of law that the wife is entitled to a dismissal of the husband’s counterclaim because of a lack of a factual issue regarding the adequacy of the husband’s fraud claim.
Reversed and remanded.
Shaw, J., concurs.
Goolsby, J., concurs and dissents.