HB126 Alabama 2018 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Kerry Rich

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2018

Title

Children, paternity, to enable a man to challenge presumption of paternity if he believes he is the biological father of a child, Sec. 26-17-607 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, a man is presumed to be the father of a child if he and the mother of the child are married to each other and the child is born during the marriage. If the presumed father persists in his status as the legal father of a child, neither the mother or any other individual may maintain an action to disprove paternity.

This bill would enable a man who is not the presumed father of a child but who believes himself to be that child's biological father to petition the court for blood testing to challenge the presumption of paternity.

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Subjects

Paternity