SB163 Alabama 2017 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Cam Ward

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2017

Title

Family law, paternity, alleged father, testing where mother alleges, by word or publication

Description

Under existing law, a proceeding to adjudicate the parentage of a child having no presumed, acknowledged, or adjudicated father may be commenced by the mother of the child for the purposes of obtaining support anytime before the child reaches age 19.

Under existing law, a person claiming to be the father of a child may acknowledge paternity and provide notice of intent to claim paternity by placing his name on the state putative father registry either before the child's birth or within 30 days after birth.

This bill would provide that if the mother of a child alleges a person to be the father of her child, either born or unborn, the alleged father is entitled to a paternity test. This bill would require the alleged father to prove that the mother, by spoken word or by publication, alleged him to be the father of her child.

This bill would provide for payment of the cost of the test.

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Subjects

Family Law