Putative Father Registries:

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While the definition of putative father varies by state, generally a "putative father" is a man who may be a child's father, but who was not married to the child's mother before the child was born and has not acknowledged that he is the father or established that he is the father in a court proceeding. Some states use registries to give putative fathers an opportunity to file notice of their claims to paternity. In many states, a man who has not filed with the putative father registry will not receive notice of any termination of parental rights and/or any adoption court proceedings regarding the child.

Following is a summary of state statutes related to putative father registries: ¾ Approximately, twenty-four states have established a Putative Father Registry where a father can voluntarily acknowledge paternity. ¾ Thirteen states have provisions for voluntary acknowledgment of paternity through forms that are filed with various entities, including social services departments and registrars of vital statistics. ¾ In twenty-one states a person may claim paternity to a child by filing an acknowledgment or affidavit of paternity with a court. ¾ All states offer parents the opportunity to voluntarily acknowledge a child’s paternity until the age of 18. ¾ Forty-three states make provisions in their statutes that allow putative fathers to revoke or rescind a notice of intent to claim paternity; fourteen states allow revocation at any time. In ten states, filing with the putative father registry is the only means for an unmarried father who acknowledges paternity to establish his right to receive notice of court proceedings regarding the child, including petitions for adoption or actions to terminate parental rights.

Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information AL Ala. Code § 26-10C-1: Established the Ala. Code §§ 26-11-2; 26-17-6; 26-17-22: The father of a Ala. Code § 26-10C-1: A Ala. Code § 26-10C-1(d): Ala. Code § 26-10C-1(f): Putative Father Registry within the nonmarital child may seek to legitimate the child and person filing an A person who has filed a Requires the Department of Department of Human Resources. A person render him or her capable of inheriting his estate by filing a acknowledgment of paternity notice of intent to claim Human Resources to send a must file with the registry within 30 days of notice of declaration of legitimation in writing attested by or filing a notice of intent to paternity may at any time copy of the putative father or before the birth of the child. two witnesses. The declaration shall include the name of claim paternity with the submit in writing a notice of intent to claim the child, supposed age, the name of mother, and that he Putative Father Registry must revocation of his intent to paternity registration form to thereby recognizes him or her as his child and capable of supply information, such as claim paternity registration. the court handling the inheriting his estate. A child, a child's natural mother, or a their name, social security adoption after receiving man presumed to be the child's father may bring an action number, address, and the notice of the pendency of an at any time before the child reaches age 19 for the purpose child's name, on the putative adoption proceeding as well of declaring the existence of the father and child father intent to claim paternity as to any person upon an relationship. The natural mother and father of a child born registration form. order showing good cause. to a woman who was unmarried at the time of birth and had not been married or attempted to be married within 300 days prior to the birth may, at any time prior to the child's 19th birthday, state and acknowledge that they are the natural parents of the child in an affidavit of paternity signed by both parties before a notary public. The affidavit of paternity shall be a legally sufficient basis for establishing an obligation for child support and may be admitted as evidence of paternity in any action to establish a support order or an adjudication of paternity. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information AK No Putative Father Registry. Alaska Stat. § 25.20.050: Establishes that a child born out Alaska Stat. § 18.50.165: The Alaska Stat. § 18.50.165: Not addressed in statute of wedlock is legitimated and considered heir of the form must include the The mother and the man putative father when: he marries the mother of the child; he following: A statement acknowledging paternity acknowledges, in writing, being the parent of the child; he acknowledging he is the must be notified that, and the mother both sign a form for acknowledging natural father of the child unless fraud, duress, or paternity; or he is determined by a superior court, upon named in the form and that he material mistake of fact is sufficient evidence, to be a parent of the child. A genetic assumes the parental duty of shown, the test that establishes a probability of parentage at 95 support of that child; the acknowledgment may only percent or higher creates a presumption of parentage that address and Social Security be rescinded by the earlier may be rebutted only by clear and convincing evidence. number of both parents of the of the following dates: 60 child; signatures of both days after the date of the Alaska Stat. § 18.50.165: When a birth occurs to an parents; a signature line for person's signature or the unmarried woman in a hospital, the hospital shall ensure either a witness or notary date of initiation of an that a staff member, among other things, provides to the public; and a statement that administrative or judicial mother and, if possible, the father, all forms, statements, or sets out the legal procedure to establish agreements necessary to voluntarily establish a parent and consequences and the rights support of the child in child relationship, including an acknowledgment of and responsibilities of the which the person is a party. paternity form. When a birth occurs to an unmarried mother and the man woman who is not in a hospital for the birth and the birth is acknowledging paternity of attended by a physician or nurse-midwife, they shall signing the form. perform the duties described above or ensure that an agent performs those duties. When a birth occurs in a situation that is not covered by either situation described above, any adult may, upon request of the father and mother, assist them in filing a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity form with the State registrar. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information AZ Arizona Rev. Stat. § 8-106.01(A)-(B) A Arizona Rev. Stat. § 25-812: The State or the parent of a Arizona Rev. Stat. § 8- Arizona Rev. Stat. § 25- Arizona Rev. Stat. § 8- person who is seeking paternity, who wants child born out of wedlock may establish the paternity of a 106.01(B): The notice of a 812: The mother and 106.01(B): Written inquiries to receive notice of adoption proceedings, child by filing one of the following with the clerk of the claim of paternity shall be father may rescind the of the confidential registry and who is the father or claims to be the superior court, the Department of Economic Security, or signed by the putative father acknowledgement of may be received by the father of a child shall file notice of a claim of the Department of Health Services: a notarized or and shall include the father's paternity within 60 days presiding court, a licensed paternity and of his willingness and intent to witnessed statement that contains the Social Security name and address, biological after the last signature to adoption agency or attorney support the child to the best of his ability numbers of both parents and that is signed by both parents mother's name and last known the notarized participating in a direct with the State Registrar of Vital Statistics in acknowledging paternity or an agreement by the parents to address, and the birth date of acknowledgment of placement adoption, and the the Department of Health Services. DHS be bound by the results of genetic testing and an affidavit child or probable birth date of paternity that is filed or the Division of Public Health shall maintain a confidential registry for this from a certified laboratory that the tested father has not the child. date of a proceeding Services. purpose. A person must file a notice of been excluded. On filing a document required above, the relating to the child, intent to claim paternity at any time before court shall issue an order establishing paternity. A including a child support the birth of the child or within 30 days after. voluntary acknowledgment of paternity that has the same proceeding in which the force and effect as a superior court judgment may be filed mother or father is a party. with the Department of Economic Security, which shall A rescission must be in provide a copy to the Department of Health Services. writing, and a copy of each rescission of paternity shall be filed with the Department of Economic Security. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information AR Ark. Ann. Code § 20-18-702: Established a Ark. Ann. Code §§ 9-10-120; 9-10-108(b): A man is the Ark. Ann. Code § 20-18-702: Ark. Ann. Code § 20-18- Ark. Ann. Code § 20-18-704: Putative Father Registry in the Department father of a child for all intents and purposes if he and the The registry record shall 703: Information on the Upon written request, of Health and Human Services. The purpose mother execute an acknowledgment of paternity of the include the following Putative Father Registry information from the registry of the registry is to entitle putative fathers to child. Acknowledgments of paternity shall constitute a information: the name, may be revoked by a may be made available to notice of legal proceedings pertaining to the conclusive finding of paternity and shall be recognized by address, and Social Security written statement, signed the registrant, the mother, child for whom the putative father has the courts as creating a parent and child relationship number of any person who and acknowledged by the the child, the Office of Child registered. The notice of paternity must be between father and child. claims to be the father of a registrant before a notary Support Enforcement of the filed with the registry before birth or before child for whom paternity is not public. The statement shall Revenue Division of the an adoption petition has been filed. presumed or has not been include a declaration that Department of Finance and established by a court; the he is not the father of the Administration, or the name, last known address, named child or that a court prosecuting attorney or and Social Security number, if has adjudicated paternity attorney acting on behalf of known, of the mother of the and someone other than his or her client involving the child; the name of the child, if the registrant has been determination of paternity or born, and the location and date determined to be the father support for the child or an of birth, if known; and the date of the child. adoption of the child. and time of receipt on the written statement signed and acknowledged by the registrant. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information CA No Putative Father Registry. CA Family Code §§ 7551; 7555; 7631; 7635: There is a CA Family Code § 7574: The CA Family Code § 7575: Not addressed in statute rebuttable presumption of paternity if the court finds that voluntary declaration of Any parent may rescind the the paternity index, as calculated by experts qualified as paternity shall contain the declaration of paternity by examiners of genetic markers, is 100 or greater. This following: the name and filing a rescission form with presumption may be rebutted by a preponderance of the signature of the mother and the Department of Child evidence. A man who is not a presumed father may bring father; the name and date of Support Services within 60 an action for the purpose of declaring that he is the natural birth of the child; a statement days of the date of father of a child if the mother consents to or proposes to by the mother that she has execution of the declaration relinquish for or consent to the adoption of the child. read and understands the by the attesting father or written materials that the man attesting mother unless a CA Family Code §§ 7571; 7573: Prior to an unmarried who has signed the voluntary court order for custody, mother leaving any hospital, the person responsible for declaration of paternity is the visitation, or child support registering live births shall provide to the natural mother only possible father, and that has been entered in and shall attempt to provide to the man identified by the she consents to the an action in which the natural mother as the natural father, a voluntary declaration establishment of paternity by signatory seeking to of paternity together. Staff in the hospital shall witness the signing the voluntary rescind was a party. signatures of parents signing a voluntary declaration of declaration of paternity; a paternity and shall forward the signed declaration to the statement by the father that he Department of Child Support Services within 20 days of the has read and understands the date the declaration was signed. A copy of the declaration written materials and he shall be made available to each of the attesting parents. A understands that by signing voluntary declaration of paternity that has been filed with the voluntary declaration of the Department of Child Support Services shall establish paternity he is waiving his the paternity of a child and shall have the same force and rights, that he is the biological effect as a judgment for paternity issued by a court of father of the child, and that he competent jurisdiction. consents to the establishment of paternity by signing the voluntary declaration of paternity; and the signature of a witness. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information CO No Putative Father Registry. Colo. Rev. Stat. §§ 19-4-107; 19-4-113: A child, his or her Not addressed in statute Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-4- Colo. Rev. Stat. § 19-4- natural mother, a man presumed to be the father, the 105(2): A presumption of 105(1)(e): The mother shall State, or the Department of Human Services may bring a paternity may be rebutted be informed when the father court action for the purpose of declaring the existence of in an action only by clear acknowledges his paternity the father and child relationship or for the purpose of and convincing evidence. of the child in a writing filed declaring the nonexistence of the father and child If two or more with the court or Registrar of relationship. presumptions arise that Vital Statistics. conflict with each other, the presumption on the facts is founded on the weightier considerations of policy and logic controls. In determining which of two or more conflicting presumptions should control the judge shall consider all pertinent factors, including but not limited to the following: the length of time between the proceeding to determine parentage and the time that the presumed father was placed on notice that he might not be the genetic father; the length of time during which the presumed father has assumed the role of father of the child; the facts surrounding the presumed father's discovery of his possible nonpaternity; the nature of the father-child relationship; the age of the child; the relationship of the child to any presumed father or fathers; the extent to which the passage of time Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information reduces the chances of establishing the paternity of another man and a child support obligation in favor of the child; or any other factors that may affect the equities arising from the disruption of the father- child relationship between the child and the presumed father or fathers or the chance of other harm to the child. A legal finding of paternity may be challenged in court only on the basis of fraud, duress, or mistake of material fact, with the burden of proof upon the challenger. CT No Putative Father Registry. Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 46b-160: Proceedings to establish Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46b-172a: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46b- Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46b- paternity of a child born or conceived out of lawful wedlock The claim shall contain the 172: The mother and the 172a: Not later than five (5) shall be commenced by the service on the putative father father's name and address, the acknowledged father shall days after the filing of a of a petition of the mother or expectant mother. Such name and last known address have the right to rescind claim for paternity, the judge petition may be brought at any time prior to the child's 18th of the mother, and the month the acknowledgment in of the court of probate shall birthday; however liability for past support shall be limited and year of the birth or writing within 60 days, or send a certified copy of such to the 3 years just prior to the date of the filing of the expected birth of the child. the date of an agreement to claim to be served upon the petition. If the putative father fails to appear in court, the support the child. An mother or prospective court shall hear the petitioner and, upon a finding that acknowledgment may be mother of such child at her process was served on the putative father, shall enter a challenged in court after usual place of abode, and to default judgment of paternity against the father. The court the rescission period only the Attorney General by first shall issue a final judgment of paternity if the court finds on the basis of fraud, class mail. that there is clear and convincing evidence of paternity, duress, or material mistake including genetic test results indicating a 99 percent or of fact that may include greater probability that the respondent is the father of the evidence that he is not the child. father, with the burden of proof upon the challenger. Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46b-172a: Established that any person claiming to be the father of a child may at any time file a claim for paternity with the court of probate for the district in Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information which either the mother or the child resides. The claim for paternity shall be admissible in any action for paternity and shall prohibit the claimant from denying his paternity of such child. The claim shall contain language that the putative father acknowledges liability for contribution to the support and education of the child after its birth and for contribution to the pregnancy-related medical expenses of the mother. DE Del. Ann. Code tit. 13, §§ 8-401; 8-402; 8- Del. Ann. Code tit. 13, §§ 8-201; 8-204: The father-child Del. Ann. Code tit. 13, § 8-411: Del. Ann. Code tit. 13, § 8- Del. Ann. Code tit. 13, § 8- 405: Established a registry of paternity in relationship can be established by: an unrebutted The Office of Vital Statistics 413: A registrant may 412(b): Information the Office of Vital Statistics. A man who presumption of the man's paternity of the child; an effective shall prepare a form for rescind his registration at contained in the registry is desires to be notified of a proceeding for acknowledgment of paternity by the man, unless the registering with the agency any time by sending to the confidential and may be adoption of, or termination of parental rights acknowledgment has been rescinded or successfully that must state the following: registry a rescission in a released by request to: the regarding, a child that he may have fathered challenged; an adjudication of the man's paternity; an that a timely registration record signed and court, the mother of the must register with the registry of paternity adoption of the child by the man; or the man's having entitles the registrant to notice witnessed or notarized. child, an agency authorized before the birth of the child or within 30 days consented to assisted reproduction by a woman that of a proceeding for adoption of by law to receive the after the birth of the child. If a child is one resulted in the birth of the child. A man is presumed to be the child or termination of the information, a licensed child- year of age, notice of a proceeding for the father of a child if: he and the mother of the child are registrant's parental rights; a placing agency, a support adoption of or termination of parental rights married to each other and the child is born during the timely registration does not enforcement agency, the regarding the child must be given to every marriage; he and the mother of the child were married to commence a proceeding to party's attorney, or the alleged father of the child, whether or not he each other and the child is born within 300 days after the establish paternity; the registry of paternity of has registered with the Office of Vital marriage is terminated; before the birth of the child, he and information disclosed may be another state. Statistics. the mother of the child married each other in apparent used against the registrant to compliance with law and the child is born during the establish paternity; services to marriage or within 300 days after its termination; for the assist in establishing paternity first two years of the child's life, he resided in the same are available to the registrant; household with the child and openly held out the child as the registrant should also his own; or after the birth of the child, he and the mother of register in another State if the child married each other in apparent compliance with conception or birth of the child law and he voluntarily asserted his paternity of the child. occurred in the other State; information on registries of other States is available; and procedures exist to rescind the registration of a claim of paternity. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information D.C. No Putative Father Registry Code §§ 16-2342.01; 16-909.01: A voluntary Code § 16-909.01: The Code § 16-909.01: A Code § 16-909.03: The acknowledgement of paternity shall create a conclusive paternity acknowledgement signed, voluntary hospital shall transmit the presumption of paternity that shall be admissible as includes: the full name, the acknowledgment of voluntary acknowledgment evidence of paternity and be recognized as a basis for Social Security number, and paternity may rescind the of paternity form to the seeking a child support obligation without requiring any date of birth of the mother, acknowledgment within 60 Registrar of Vital Records further proceeding to establish paternity. Paternity may be father, and child; the address days or the date of an within 14 days of established by a written statement of the father and mother of the mother and father; the administrative or judicial completion. The Registrar signed under oath that acknowledges paternity or through birthplace of the child; an proceeding relating to the shall promptly record an affidavit from a laboratory of a genetic test that affirms explanation of the legal child in which the signatory identifying information from at least a 99 percent probability that the putative father is consequences of the affidavit; is a party. the form. the father of the child. a statement indicating that both parents understand their Code § 16-909.03: Each public and private hospital in the rights of signing the District of Columbia shall operate a program that provides acknowledgement; and, to each unmarried woman who gives birth at the hospital signature lines for the parents. and the alleged putative father, if present in the hospital, the following information: written materials concerning paternity establishment; forms necessary to acknowledge paternity voluntarily; a written and oral description of the alternatives to, the legal consequences of, and the rights and responsibilities that arise from, signing a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity; written notice that a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity is not legal unless the mother and putative father each signs the form under oath and a notary authenticates the signatures; and the opportunity to acknowledge paternity voluntarily in the hospital. FL Fla. Ann. Stat. § 63.054: Established the Fla. Ann. Stat. § 742.10: Paternity can be determined by: Fla. Ann. Stat. § 63.054: The Fla. Ann. Stat. §§ 63.054; Fla. Ann. Stat. § 63.0541: Florida Putative Father Registry to be the establishment of paternity at an adjudicatory hearing, paternity claim must include 742.10: The father may, at Information included in the maintained by the Department of Health. an affidavit acknowledging paternity, an affidavit or the following information: the any time prior to the birth of putative father registry is An unmarried biological father must file a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity that is executed by father's name, address, birth the child, execute a confidential and may only be notarized claim of paternity form with the both parties, or paternity that is adjudicated by the date and physical description; notarized written revocation disclosed to: an adoption Florida Putative Father Registry. The claim Department of Revenue. the mother's name, address, of the claim of paternity. entity, upon the filing of a of paternity may be filed at any time prior to birth date and physical Upon receipt of such request for a diligent search the child's birth, but not after the date a description; the date and revocation, the claim of of the Florida Putative petition is filed for termination of parental location of conception, if paternity shall be deemed Father Registry in rights. By filing a claim of paternity form the known; and the name, place, null and void. If a court connection with the planned registrant expressly consents to submit to and birth date, or expected determines that a registrant adoption of a child; the DNA testing upon the request of any party, date of birth, of the child, if is not the father of the father, upon receipt of Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information the registrant, or the adoption entity with known. minor or has no parental notarized request for a copy respect to the child referenced in the claim rights, the court shall order of his registry; or the court. of paternity. the Department of Health to remove the registrant's 2008 Fla. Laws, HB 663, Chap. 2008-151: name from the registry. A Requires that a petition for adoption must be voluntary acknowledgment accompanied by a statement verifying that of paternity is subject to the adoptive parents have received all right of any signatory to information required to be disclosed. rescind the Requires that for a father to establish acknowledgment within 60 parental rights, he must file a claim of days after the date the paternity with the Florida Putative Father acknowledgment was Registry before the date a petition for signed or the date of a termination of parental rights is filed, with judicial proceeding relating some exceptions. An unmarried biological to the child. father must act immediately in order to protect his parental rights. Any father seeking to establish his right to consent to the adoption of his child must file a claim of paternity by the date a petition to terminate parental rights is filed with the court, or within 30 days after receiving service of a Notice of Intended Adoption Plan. If he receives a Notice of Intended Adoption Plan, he must file a claim of paternity with the Florida Putative Father Registry, file a parenting plan with the court, and provide financial support to the mother or child within 30 days following service. An unmarried biological father's failure to timely respond to a Notice of Intended Adoption Plan constitutes an irrevocable legal waiver of any and all rights that the father may have to the child. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information GA Ga. Ann. Code § 19-11-9(d)(1): Established GA. Ann. Code §§19-7-22; 19-7-46.1: A father of a child Ga. Ann. Code §§ 19-11- GA. Ann. Code § 19-7- Ann. Code § 19-11-9(e): the putative father registry to include two born out of wedlock may render his relationship with the 9(d)(1); 19-7-46.1: The 46.1: A voluntary Information in the registry types of registrations: persons who child by petitioning the court of the county of the residence putative father registry shall acknowledgment of shall only be available to: A acknowledge paternity of a child or children of the child's mother or other party having legal custody or include the name, address and paternity or registration with governmental department, before or after birth in a signed writing or guardianship of the child. The petition shall include the Social Security number of any the putative father registry board, commission, bureau, persons who register to indicate the name, age, and sex of the child, and the name of the person who claims to be the is subject to the right of any agency, or political possibility of paternity without mother. If the mother is alive, she shall be named as a biological father but not the signatory to rescind the subdivision of any State for acknowledging paternity. Registrants shall party and shall be served and provided an opportunity to legal father of a child. When acknowledgment prior to purposes of locating an be informed that the registration may be be heard. The appearance of the name or Social Security both the mother and father the date of any order absent parent or putative used to establish an obligation to support number of the father, entered with his written consent, on have signed a voluntary adjudicating paternity, or 60 father to establish or to the child or children and to provide notice of the birth certificate of the child or in the putative father acknowledgment of paternity days from the signing of the enforce his obligation of adoption proceedings or proceedings to registry shall establish paternity. and the acknowledgment is agreement, whichever is support or of enforcing a terminate the rights of a biological father. recorded in the putative father earlier. Recording such child custody determination; registry, the acknowledgment information in the putative or the department or a shall constitute a legal father registry shall licensed child-placing determination of paternity. constitute a legal agency in response to a determination of paternity request for information for for purposes of establishing purposes of locating a a future order for support, biological father to provide visitation privileges, and notice of adoption other matters proceedings or a proceeding to terminate parental rights. HI No Putative Father Registry Hawaii Rev. Stat. §§ 584-6(a); 584.12; 584-15(a): Evidence Hawaii Rev. Stat. § 584-3.5: Hawaii Rev. Stat. § 584- Hawaii Rev. Stat. § 584-3.5: relating to paternity may include the following: evidence of The voluntary 3.5: The voluntary The Department of Health sexual intercourse between the mother and the alleged acknowledgement of paternity acknowledgment of shall disclose to the child father at any possible time of conception; an expert's shall include the Social paternity shall constitute a support enforcement opinion concerning the probability of the alleged father's Security number of each legal finding of paternity, agency, upon request, all paternity based upon the duration of the mother's parent. however, any signatory voluntary acknowledgment pregnancy; genetic test results; medical or anthropological has the right to rescind the of paternity forms on file. evidence relating to the alleged father's paternity of the acknowledgment within 60 child based on tests performed by experts; a voluntary, days of signature or before written acknowledgement of paternity; bills for pregnancy the date of a judicial and childbirth including medical insurance premiums proceeding relating to the covering this period and genetic testing; or, any other child, including a evidence relevant to the issue of paternity of the child. proceeding to establish a support order. Hawaii Rev. Stat. § 584-3.5: To expedite the establishment of paternity, each public and private hospital and the Department of Health shall provide unwed parents the Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information opportunity to voluntarily acknowledge the paternity of a child during the period immediately prior to or following the child's birth. The voluntary acknowledgment of paternity shall be in writing and shall be signed under oath by both the natural mother and the natural father and signed by a witness. ID No Putative Father Registry Idaho Ann. Stat. § 7-1106: A voluntary acknowledgment of Idaho Ann. Stat. § 16-1513: Idaho Ann. Stat. § 7-1106: Idaho Ann. Stat. § 16-1513: paternity shall be admissible as evidence of paternity and The notice of paternity must Any party executing an The identities of the putative shall constitute a legal finding of paternity upon the filing of include the father's name and acknowledgment of father may only be released a signed and notarized acknowledgment with the vital address, the name and last paternity or affidavit of pursuant to procedures statistics unit of the Department of Health and Welfare. If address of the mother, and nonpaternity may file a contained in chapter 3, title the mother was married at the time of either conception or either the birth date of the child notarized rescission of 9, Idaho Code. birth, or between conception and birth, and the husband is or the probable month and such with the vital statistics not the father of the child, the husband may file an year of the expected birth of unit within the earlier of 60 executed and notarized affidavit of nonpaternity if it is the child. days of filing or the date of accompanied by a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity a judicial proceeding signed and notarized by the mother and the alleged father. relating to the child, including a proceeding to Idaho Ann. Stat. § 16-1513: A person who is the father or establish a support order. claims to be the father of a child born out of wedlock may Such rescission shall be claim rights pertaining to his paternity of the child by effective upon filing with the commencing proceedings to establish paternity and by vital statistics unit and the filing with the vital statistics unit of the Department of other party or parties must Health and Welfare notice of his commencement of be notified of the rescission proceedings. The form must be signed by the person by certified mail. claiming paternity and witnessed before a notary public. The notice of paternity proceedings may be filed prior to the birth of the child but must be filed prior to the child's placement for adoption. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information IL Ill. Comp. Stat. Ch. 750 § 50/12.1: Ill. Comp. Stat. Ch. 750, § 45/7; Ch. 410, § 535/12: An Ill. Comp. Stat. Ch. 750 § Ill. Comp. Stat. Ch. 750, § Ill. Comp. Stat. Ch. 750 § Established the putative father registry action to determine the existence of a father and child 50/12.1: The following 45/5: An acknowledgment 50/12.1: The following within the Department of Children and relationship may be brought by: the child; the mother; any information shall be of paternity is conclusive persons may request the Family Services for the purpose of person or public agency who has custody of the child; the maintained in the putative unless the Department search the determining the identity and location of a Illinois Department of Public Aid if it is providing or has father registry: the name, acknowledgment of registry to determine putative father of a minor child who is, or is provided financial support to the child or if it is assisting address, social security parentage is rescinded whether a putative father is expected to be, the subject of an adoption with child support collection services; or, a man presumed number, and date of birth of within 60 days of filing or registered in relation to a proceeding, in order to provide notice of or alleging himself to be the father of the child. The signing the father and mother; the the date of a judicial child that may be the subject such proceeding to the putative father. A and witnessing of the acknowledgment of parentage or, if name, gender, place of birth proceeding relating to the of an adoption proceeding: putative father may register with the the presumed father of the child is not the biological father, and the date of birth of the child, including a an interested party, including Department before the birth of the child but the acknowledgment of parentage and denial of paternity child; the date that the proceeding to establish a persons intending to adopt a no later than 30 days after the birth of the conclusively establishes a parent and child relationship in department received the support order. If a minor child; a child welfare agency child. A putative father who fails to register accordance with Sections 5 and 6 of the Illinois Parentage putative father's registration; has signed the with whom the mother has with the putative father registry is barred Act of 1984. and, any other information the acknowledgment of placed or has given written from thereafter bringing or maintaining any department may deem paternity, the presumption notice of her intention to action to assert any interest in the child, necessary. becomes conclusive six place a child for adoption; unless he proves by clear and convincing months after the minor and an attorney representing evidence that: it was not possible for him to reaches the age of majority an interested party. register within the time period; his failure to or is otherwise register was through no fault of his own; or, emancipated. he registered within 10 days after it became possible for him to file. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information IN Ind. Ann. Code §§ 31-19-5-2; 31-19-5-3; 31- Ind. Ann. Code § 16-37-2-2.1: Immediately before or after Ind. Ann. Code 31-19-5-7(a): Ind. Ann. Code §§ 31-19-5- Ind. Ann. Code § 31-19-5- 19-5-5: Established the Putative Father the birth of a child who is born out of wedlock, a person The following information shall 19; 16-37-2-2.1: A putative 21: A certified copy of a Registry within the State Department of who attends the birth of the child, including personnel of all be maintained in the registry: father may revoke a putative father's registration Health. If, on or before the date the mother public or private hospitals, shall provide an opportunity for the name, address, social registration at any time by form may be released, upon of a child executes a consent to the child's the child's mother and a man who appears to be the child's security number, and date of submitting a signed, written request, to the adoption, the mother does not disclose to an biological father to execute an affidavit acknowledging birth of the mother and father; notarized statement following: a putative father; a attorney or agency that is arranging an paternity of the child. A paternity affidavit must be the name and place of birth of revoking the registration. A mother; a child; any attorney adoption of the child the name or address of executed on a form provided by the department. A the child; the date that the paternity affidavit that is of record in a pending the putative father of the child, the putative paternity affidavit is not valid if it is executed after the department receives a putative properly executed may not adoption; an attorney who father must register to entitle him to notice of mother of the child has executed a consent to adoption of father's registration; and, any be rescinded more than 60 represents prospective the child's adoption. the child and a petition to adopt the child has been filed. If other information the days after the paternity adoptive parents in an a man has executed a paternity affidavit, the executed Department feels is necessary. affidavit is executed unless adoption; a licensed child- paternity affidavit establishes the man as the legal father of a court: determines that placing agency that a child without any further proceedings by a court. fraud, duress, or material represents prospective mistake of fact existed in adoptive parents in an the execution of the adoption; or, a court paternity affidavit; or the presiding over a pending request of a man who is a adoption. party to a paternity affidavit, has ordered a genetic test, and the test indicates that the man is excluded as the father of the child. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information IA Iowa Ann. Stat. § 144.12A: The State Iowa Ann. Stat. § 144.12A: Iowa Ann. Stat. § 144.12A: Iowa Ann. Stat. § 144.12A: Registrar of Vital Statistics established a The following information shall Information provided to the The department shall, upon declaration of paternity registry to record the be included in a declaration of registry may be revoked by request, provide the name, name, address, Social Security number, and paternity: the name, address, the registrant by address, Social Security any other identifying information required by and social security number of submission of a written number, and any other rule of the department of a putative father the father; the name, address, statement signed and identifying information of a who wishes to register prior to the birth of a and social security number of acknowledged by the registrant to: the biological child and no later than the date of the filing the mother; the name of the registrant before a notary mother; a court; the of the petition for termination of parental child, if known; and, the date public. The statement shall Department of Human rights. and location of the birth of the include a declaration that, Services; an attorney of any child, if known. to the best of the party to an adoption, registrant's knowledge, the termination of parental registrant is not the father rights, establishment of of the named child or that paternity or support action; paternity of the true father or, to a child support has been established. recovery unit for an action to establish paternity or support. KS No Putative Father Registry Kan. Ann. Stat. § 38-1115: A child or any person on behalf Kan. Ann. Stat. §§ 38- Kan. Ann. Stat. § 38-1138: of such a child, may bring an action at any time to 1115; 38-1138: A person Upon request, the State determine the existence of a father and child relationship or who wants to revoke the Registrar of Vital Statistics at any time until three years after the child reaches the age acknowledgment of shall provide a certified copy of majority to determine the existence of a father and child paternity must file the of the acknowledgment of relationship that is not presumed. request with the court paternity to an office before the child is one year providing IV-D program Kan. Ann. Stat. §38-1138: An acknowledgment of paternity old, unless the person was services. creates a permanent father and child relationship that can under age 18 when the only be ended by court order. acknowledgment of paternity was signed. The person requesting revocation must show that the acknowledgment of paternity was based upon fraud, duress, or material mistake of fact unless the action to revoke the acknowledgment of paternity is filed before the Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information earlier of 60 days after completion of the acknowledgment of paternity or the date of a proceeding to establish a support order. KY No Putative Father Registry Kentucky Rev. Stat. § 406.021; 625.065: Paternity may be Kentucky Rev. Stat. § determined upon the complaint of the mother, putative 406.035: Information father, child, person, or agency substantially contributing to concerning the paternity the support of the child. Paternity may be determined by action shall not be published the District Court when the mother and father of the child or be open for public do either of the following: submit affidavits or gives inspection if the disclosure testimony before the District Court in which the mother of the information could be states the name and Social Security number of the child's harmful to the custodial father and the father admits paternity of the child. parent or the child of the parent. Information may be Kentucky Rev. Stat. §§ 213.046; 406.025: When a birth inspected by employees of occurs in a hospital to a woman who is unmarried, the governmental agencies in mother shall immediately before or after the birth of a child, the performance of their except when the mother or the alleged father is a minor, be duties, law enforcement provided with written material and information concerning agencies and anyone else genetic paternity testing and if the parents wish to under order of the court acknowledge paternity, the voluntary acknowledgment of expressly permitting paternity forms shall be obtained through the hospital- inspection, or attorneys of a based program and signed by both parents and party to an action. authenticated by a notary public. The voluntary acknowledgment-of-paternity forms designated by the Vital Statistics Branch shall be the only documents having the same weight and authority as a judgment of paternity. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information LA La. Rev. Stat. § 9:400: Established the La. Rev. Stat. §§ 9:392; 9:572: Prior to the La. Rev. Stat. §§ 9:400; 9:392: La. Rev. Stat. § 9:392: A La. Rev. Stat. § 9:400: The putative father registry in the Office of acknowledgment of paternity, the parties shall be informed The father's current address person who executed an Department of Health and Health and Hospitals to record the names of the following: either party has the right to request a and any change of address acknowledgment may Hospitals shall, upon and address of the following: any person genetic test to determine if the alleged father is the shall be included when filing a revoke the act, without request, provide the names adjudicated by a court of the State to be the biological father of the child; the alleged father has the right declaration to claim paternity cause, before the earlier of and addresses of persons father of the child; any person adjudicated to consult an attorney before signing an acknowledgment of a child or an the following: 60 days after listed with the registry to any by a court of another State or territory of the of paternity; if the alleged father does not acknowledge the acknowledgment of paternity. the signing of the act or a court or authorized agency. United States to be the father of an out of child, the mother has the right to file a paternity suit to An acknowledgment of a child judicial hearing relating to wedlock child, where a certified copy of the establish paternity; after the alleged father signs an born outside of marriage shall the child, including a child court order has been filed with the registry acknowledgment of paternity, he has the right to pursue include the Social Security support proceeding, by such person or any other person; any visitation with the child and the right to petition for custody; numbers of the father and wherein the affiant to the person who has filed with the registry an once an acknowledgment of paternity is signed, the father mother and shall include all authentic act of acknowledgment by authentic act; or, any may be obligated to provide support for the child; and once minimum requirements acknowledgment is a party person who has filed with the registry a an acknowledgment of paternity is signed, the child will specified by the secretary of to the proceeding. judgment of filiation rendered by a court that have inheritance rights and any rights afforded children the United States Department recognizes a father as having born in wedlock. of Health and Human acknowledged a child born outside of Services. marriage and in which the father is adjudged the parent of the child. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information ME No Putative Father Registry Maine Rev. Stat. tit. 18-A, § 9-201; tit. 19-A, §§ 1605; 1616: Maine Rev. Stat. tit. 19-A, § Maine Rev. Stat. tit. 19-A, § When the mother of a child born out of wedlock wishes to 1605: The notice of a paternity 1616: A signed voluntary consent to the adoption of the child and the putative father proceeding to the alleged acknowledgment of has not consented or waived his right to notice, the mother father must include: the child's paternity is subject to the must file an affidavit of paternity with the court so that the name, date and place of birth; right of a signatory to judge may determine how to give notice of the proceedings the name of the child's mother; rescind the to the putative father of the child. After notice has been the probable date which the acknowledgment within the given, the putative father has 20 days to petition the court child was conceived; an earlier of 60 days or the to grant him parental rights. If the judge finds that the allegation that the alleged date of a judicial putative father is the biological father, that he is willing and father engaged in sexual proceeding relating to the able to take responsibility for the child, and that it is in the intercourse with the child's child, including a best interests of the child, the judge shall declare the mother during a possible time proceeding to establish a putative father the child's parent with all the rights and of conception of the child and support order. After the responsibilities. A signed voluntary acknowledgment of that the alleged father is or right to rescind ends, the paternity is a legal finding of paternity. The State shall give may be the biological father of acknowledgment may be full faith and credit to an acknowledgment of paternity the child; a statement that the challenged in court only on signed in any other State according to that State's alleged father may deny the the basis of fraud, duress, procedures. allegation of paternity by filing or material mistake of fact, a written denial of paternity with the burden of proof on with the department within 20 the challenger. days after service of the notice; a statement that if the alleged father files a written denial of paternity, he is required to submit to blood tests; a statement that if, prior to the filing in a court, the alleged father executes and delivers to the department an acknowledgment of paternity, the proceeding must terminate, or a statement that the department may require the alleged father to submit to blood tests prior to accepting an acknowledgment of paternity if it appears that there may be more than one alleged father. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information MD No Putative Father Registry Md. Family Law § 5-1028: An unmarried father and mother Md. Family Law § 5-1028(c): Md. Family Law § 5-1028: shall be provided an opportunity to execute an affidavit of An affidavit of parentage form An executed affidavit of parentage. The affidavit shall be completed on a shall include: a statement that parentage is subject to the standardized form developed by the department. An the affidavit is a legal right of any signatory to executed affidavit of parentage constitutes a legal finding of document and constitutes a rescind the affidavit in paternity. legal finding of paternity; the writing within 60 days after full name, place and date of execution of the affidavit or birth of the child; the name and in a judicial proceeding social security number of the relating to the child in which mother and father; the the signatory is a party. signatures of the father and After the expiration of the the mother of the child 60-day period, an executed attesting that the information affidavit of parentage may provided on the affidavit is true be challenged in court only and correct; a statement by the on the basis of fraud, mother consenting to the duress, or material mistake assertion of paternity and of fact, with the burden of acknowledging that her proof on the challenger. cosignatory is the only possible father; and a statement by the father that he is the natural father of the child. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information MA No Putative Father Registry Mass. Ann. Laws Ch. 209C, §§ 2 and 11; Ch. 210, § 4A: Mass. Ann. Laws Ch. 209C, §§ Mass. Ann. Laws Ch. Mass. Ann. Laws Ch. 209C, Paternity may be established by filing with the court or the 2 and 11: An 209C, § 11: Unless either § 13; Ch. 210, § 4A: Access Registrar of Vital Records and Statistics an acknowledgement of paternity signatory rescinds the to information may only be acknowledgment of parentage executed by both parents or shall include the sex of the voluntary acknowledgment granted to the following: the pursuant to a court action to establish paternity filed. Upon child and the name, residence, of parentage within 60 days child, the child's mother, or receipt of an acknowledgment of parentage or upon an date of birth, place of birth, and of the date of signing, the the person adjudicated to be adjudication of paternity, the court shall transmit to the Social Security number of acknowledgment shall the father; the Department of Registrar of Vital Records and Statistics a certified copy of each of the parties and the establish paternity as of the Transitional Assistance; the the acknowledgment or order establishing paternity. A child. Voluntary date it has been signed by Department of Social written voluntary acknowledgment of parentage executed acknowledgments of such putative father and Services; the Division of jointly by the putative father and the mother of the child and parentage shall include the mother. The Medical Assistance, or any filed with the Registrar of Vital Records and Statistics or address and social security acknowledgement shall be other public assistance with the court shall be recognized as a sufficient basis for numbers of each parent and subject to challenge within program; the attorney for seeking an order of support, visitation, or custody with the child. one year only on the basis any of them; and, the respect to the child without further proceedings to establish of fraud, duress, or material Department of Social paternity. A putative father may also establish the right to mistake of fact. Services when the child is receive notice of the child's surrender for adoption by filing within the care and a declaration seeking to assert the responsibilities of protection of the department. fatherhood. Such filing shall constitute an acknowledgment The department shall send and admission of paternity. notice of the filing of a parental responsibility claim to the mother. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information MI No Putative Father Registry Mich. Comp. Laws §§ 710.33; 722.1003; 722.1004: Before Mich. Comp. Laws § 710.33: Mich. Comp. Laws § Mich. Comp. Laws §§ the birth of a child born out of wedlock, a person claiming The notice of intent to claim 722.1011: The mother or 710.33; 722.1003: If the to be the father of the child may file a verified notice of paternity shall include the the man who signed the mother's address is stated intent to claim paternity with the court in any county of the father's address. acknowledgment of on the notice of intent to State. A person filing a notice of intent to claim paternity paternity, the child who is claim paternity, the vital shall be presumed to be the father of the child unless the the subject of the records division shall send a mother denies that the claimant is the father. A person acknowledgment, or a copy of the notice by first- who files a notice of intent to claim paternity in a timely prosecuting attorney may class mail to the mother of manner shall be entitled to notice of any hearing involving file a claim for revocation of the child at the stated that child to determine the identity of the father of the child an acknowledgment of address. The mother and and any hearing to determine or terminate his paternal parentage. A claim for father shall be provided a rights to the child. If a child is born out of wedlock, a man revocation shall be signed copy of the completed is considered to be the natural father of that child if the man by the claimant setting forth acknowledgment of joins with the mother of the child and acknowledges that facts that constitute one of parentage at the time of child as his child by completing a form that is an the following: mistake of signing. acknowledgment of parentage. An acknowledgment fact, fraud, establishes paternity, and the acknowledgment may be the misrepresentation or basis for court-ordered child support, custody, or parenting misconduct, duress, or time without further adjudication under the Paternity Act, newly discovered evidence sections 722.711 to 722.730 of the Michigan Compiled that by due diligence could Laws. not have been found before the acknowledgment was signed. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information MN Minn. Ann. Stat. § 259.52: Established the Minn. Ann. Stat. § 257.57: A child, the child's biological Minn. Ann. Stat. § 259.52: The Minn. Ann. Stat. § 259.52: fathers' adoption registry for the purpose of mother, or a man presumed to be the child's father may following information must be The Commissioner of Health determining the identity and location of a bring an action at any time for the purpose of declaring the contained in the fathers' shall notify the mother of the putative father interested in a minor child existence of the father and child relationship or for the adoption registry: the putative child whenever a putative who is, or is expected to be, the subject of purpose of declaring the nonexistence of the father and father and mother's name, father has registered with an adoption proceeding, in order to provide child relationship, only if the action is brought within two address, social security the father's adoption notice of the adoption proceeding to the years after the person bringing the action has reason to number and date of birth; the registry. Notice shall be putative father who is not otherwise entitled believe that the presumed father is not the father of the name, gender, place of birth, sent to the name and to notice. child, but in no event later than three years after the child's and date of birth of the child; address submitted by the birth. the date that the putative father. Data in the Commissioner of Health registry may be released to: received the putative father's a person who is required to registration; and, any other search the registry if the necessary information. data relates to the child who is or may be the subject of the adoption petition; the mother; a public authority responsible for child support enforcement; and, an attorney who has signed an affidavit attesting that the attorney represents the birth mother or the prospective adoptive parents. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information MS No Putative Father Registry Miss. Ann. Code § 93-17-6: Any person who is alleged or Miss. Ann. Code § 93-9-28: Miss. Ann. Code § 93-9-28: claiming to be the father of a child born out of wedlock who The Social Security numbers A signed voluntary is proposed for adoption or who has been determined to be of both the father and mother acknowledgment of an alleged father by any judicial procedure may file a are required on voluntary paternity is subject to the petition for determination of rights as a preliminary pleading acknowledgments. right of any signatory to to a petition for adoption in any court that would have rescind the jurisdiction and venue of an adoption proceeding. A acknowledgment within the petition for determination of rights may be filed at any time earlier of: 60 days or the after 30 days after the birth of the child. date of a judicial proceeding relating to the Miss. Ann. Code § 93-9-28: The Mississippi Department of child, including a Health, in cooperation with the Mississippi Department of proceeding to establish a Human Services, shall develop a form and procedure that support order. After the may be used to secure a voluntary acknowledgment of expiration of the 60-day paternity from the mother and father of any child born out period, a signed voluntary of wedlock in Mississippi. The form shall clearly state that acknowledgment of the execution of the acknowledgment of paternity shall paternity may be result in the same legal effect as if the father and mother challenged in court only on had been married at the time of the birth of the child. the basis of fraud, duress, When such form has been completed and the signatures of or material mistake of fact, both the mother and father have been notarized, then such with the burden of proof voluntary acknowledgment shall constitute a full upon the challenger. determination of the legal parentage of the child. Upon the birth of a child out of wedlock, the hospital, birthing center, midwife, or other birth attendant shall provide an opportunity for the child's mother and natural father to complete an acknowledgment of paternity by giving the mother and natural father the appropriate forms and information. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information MO Mo. Rev. Stat. § 192.016: Established the Mo. Rev. Stat. § 210.826: An action may be brought at any Mo. Rev. Stat. § 192.016: A Mo. Rev. Stat. § 192.016: A Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 192.016; putative father registry within the time for the purpose of declaring the existence or person filing a notice of intent person who has filed a 453.014(1): The department Department of Health and Senior Services nonexistence of the father and child relationship by any of to claim paternity of a child or notice of intent to claim shall, upon request, provide to record the names and addresses of any the following: a child, the child's mother, a man presumed an acknowledgment of paternity may at any time the names and addresses of person adjudicated by a court to be: the or alleged to be the child's father, any person having paternity shall file the revoke a notice of intent to persons listed with the father of a child born out of wedlock; any physical or legal custody of a child for a period of more acknowledgment form claim paternity previously registry to: any court or person who has filed a notice of intent to than 60 days, or the Department of Child Support developed by the State filed. authorized agency; the claim paternity of the child with the registry Enforcement. An action to determine the existence of the registrar. The form shall Division of Family Services before or after the birth of a child out of father and child relationship with respect to a child who has include the minimum of the Department of Social wedlock; or, any person adjudicated by a no presumed father may be brought by: a child; the child's requirements prescribed by the Services; a licensed child- court of another State or territory of the mother; the Department of Child Support Enforcement; any Secretary of the United States placing agency; the child's United States to be the father of an out-of- person having physical or legal custody of a child for a Department of Health and parents; and, an attorney, a wedlock child, where a certified copy of the period of more than 60 days; the personal representative or Human Services. A person physician, or a member of court order has been filed with the registry a parent of the mother if the mother has died; a personal filing a notice of intent to claim the clergy of the parents. by such person or any other person. An representative or a parent of the alleged father if the paternity of a child shall notify unrevoked notice of intent to claim paternity alleged father has died or is a minor; or, a person alleging the registry of any change of of a child may be introduced in evidence by to be the father. address. any party, other than the person who filed such notice, in any proceeding in which such fact may be relevant. Lack of knowledge of the pregnancy does not excuse the failure to file a claim of paternity in a timely manner. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information MT Mont. Ann. Code §§ 42-2-202; 42-2-203; Mont. Ann. Code §§ 40-6-105; 40-6-107: A man is Mont. Ann. Code § 42-2-205: Mont. Ann. Code §§ 42-2- Mont. Ann. Code § 42-2- 42-2-204: Established the putative father presumed to be the natural father of the child when: the The following information must 223; 40-6-105: Unless a 224: The department shall registry within the vital statistics bureau of person and the child's mother are or have been married to be filed in the putative father support order has been furnish a certified copy of the the department. The purpose of the each other, and the child is born during the marriage or registry in a timely manner: the issued, a putative father putative father's registration putative father registry is to provide notice of within 300 days after the marriage is terminated; before the father's name, address, social may revoke a registration form, upon written request, termination of parental rights to a putative child's birth, the person and the child's natural mother have security number, date of birth, at any time by submitting to to the following: a mother or father who asserts a parental interest in a attempted to marry each other; and after the child's birth, an tribal affiliation, if the department a signed, a putative father whose child. the person and the child's mother have married or applicable; the mother's name, notarized statement name appears on the attempted to marry each other. Any interested party may address, social security revoking the registration. registration form being bring an action for the purpose of determining the number, and date of birth; and An acknowledgment of requested; a licensed child- existence or nonexistence of the father and child the child's name, place of birth, paternity may be rescinded placing agency; a relationship. and the approximate date and by a signatory at any time prospective adoptive parent location of a possible within 60 days after it was or an attorney representing conception and the signed by filing a notice of a prospective adoptive approximate expected date of withdrawal with the parent in an adoption who delivery. Department of Public has the notarized consent of Health and Human the birth mother; a court that Services. The notice of presides over a pending withdrawal must include an adoption; the child support affidavit attesting that a enforcement division of the copy of the notice was department; and, a provided to any parent who representative of the signed the department involved in an acknowledgment form. adoption or a neglect and dependency proceeding. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information NE Neb. Rev. Stat. § 43-104.01: Established a Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 43-1408.01; 43-1411: During the period Neb. Rev. Stat. § 43-104.01: Neb. Rev. Stat. § 43- Neb. Rev. Stat. § 43-104.01: biological father registry in the Department immediately before or after the birth of a child whose A request filed with the registry 104.01: Any putative father The department shall not of Health and Human Services. The names mother was not married at the time of either conception or shall include: the name, who files with the biological divulge the names and and addresses of the following shall be birth of the child, the person in charge of such hospital shall address, and social security father registry may revoke addresses of persons listed recorded in the registry: any person provide to the child's mother and alleged father the number of the father; the name such filing. Upon receipt of with the biological father adjudicated by a court to be the biological documents and written instructions for such mother and and address of the mother; the such revocation by the registry to any other person father of a child born out of wedlock, if a father to complete a notarized acknowledgment of month and year of the birth or registry, the effect shall be except as authorized by law certified copy of the court order is filed with paternity. Such acknowledgment, if signed by both parties the expected birth of the child; as if no filing had ever been or upon order of a court of the registry by such person or any other and notarized, shall be filed with the Department of Health the case name, court name, made. competent jurisdiction for person; any putative father who has filed and Human Services at the same time at which the and location of any Nebraska good cause shown. with the registry a request for notification of certificate of live birth is filed. A civil proceeding to court having jurisdiction over intended adoption with respect to such child; establish the paternity of a child may be instituted for cases the custody of the child; and a and any putative father who has filed with under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, where the statement by the putative the registry a notice of objection to adoption alleged father is domiciled by the mother or the alleged father that he acknowledges and intent to obtain custody with respect to father of such child, either during pregnancy or within four liability for contribution to the such child. years after the child's birth or by the guardian of such child support and education of the or the State, either during pregnancy or within 18 years child after birth and to the after the child's birth. pregnancy-related medical expenses of the mother of the child. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information NV No Putative Father Registry Nev. Rev. Stat. §§126.72; 126.131: A child, his mother, a Nev. Rev. Stat. § 126.163(2): Nev. Rev. Stat. § Nev. Rev. Stat. § 440.280: man presumed or alleged to be his father or an interested Within ten days after a court 126.053(2): Any person The contents of the file may third party may bring an action pursuant to this chapter to issues an order establishing who signs an be examined only upon declare the existence or nonexistence of the father and the paternity of a child, each acknowledgment of order of a court of child relationship. Evidence relating to paternity may party shall file with the court paternity may rescind the competent jurisdiction or at include: evidence of sexual intercourse between the that issued the order and with acknowledgment within 60 the request of the father or mother and alleged father at any possible time of the Division of Welfare and days of signing the mother or the Division of conception; an expert's opinion concerning the statistical Supportive Services: his social acknowledgement or Welfare and Supportive probability of the alleged father's paternity based upon the security number, address, before the date on which a Services of the Department duration of the mother's pregnancy; the results of any test telephone number, driver's judicial proceeding relating of Health and Human for the typing of blood or taking of specimens for genetic license number, and the name, to the child begins if that Services. identification; an expert's opinion concerning the results of address and telephone person is a party to the a blood test, weighted in accordance with evidence of the number of his employer. proceeding, whichever statistical probability of the alleged father's paternity; occurs earlier. After the medical or anthropological evidence relating to the alleged expiration of the period father's paternity of the child based on tests performed by during which an experts; or, any other evidence relevant to the issue of acknowledgment may be paternity. rescinded, the acknowledgment may not Nev. Rev. Stat. §§ 440.280; 440.283; 126.053: If the be challenged except upon mother was unmarried at the time of her child's birth, the the grounds of fraud, name of the father may be entered on the original duress, or material mistake certificate of birth if the mother and father of the child have of fact. signed a declaration for the voluntary acknowledgment of paternity. Before providing a declaration for the acknowledgment of paternity to the mother of a child or a person who wishes to acknowledge the paternity of the child, the hospital shall ensure that the mother and the person who wishes to acknowledge paternity are given notice of the rights, responsibilities and legal consequences of, and the alternatives to, signing the declaration for the acknowledgment of paternity. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information NH N.H. Rev. Stat. § 170-B:6: Established the N.H. Rev. Stat. §§ 168-A: 2; 5-C: 24: Paternity shall be N.H. Rev. Stat. § 5-C:25: The N.H. Rev. Stat. § 5-C:28: A N.H. Rev. Stat. § 5-C: 28: New Hampshire Putative Father Registry established through: filing a petition to the superior court by following information shall be parent or legal guardian The rescission of paternity with the Office of Child Support Services the mother, putative father, child, or public authority included in the affidavit of may request to rescind an shall be distributed to: the which will give notice by the court of an chargeable by law with the support of the child and the paternity: the child's name, affidavit of paternity within mother, the father, the adoption to the putative father and shall granting of such petition by the court; or by filing an date and place of birth, and 60 days of the filing of an parent or legal guardian of provide him the right to request a hearing to affidavit of paternity with the clerk of the town where the social security number; the affidavit of paternity unless the minor signatory as prove paternity. The registration form may birth of the child occurred. The affidavit of paternity shall father's name, date and place an administrative or judicial stated on the affidavit of be filed prior to the birth of the child but shall have the legal effect of establishing paternity. In the case of birth, address, social proceeding related to the paternity, the husband, if a be filed prior to the birth mother's parental of a child born in the State of New Hampshire whose security number, and child results in an earlier 3-party affidavit of paternity rights being surrendered or involuntarily paternity has not been established by means of an affidavit signature; the mother's maiden date. Once the completed was completed, the division terminated. Failure to register with the of paternity, the mother or the natural father may initiate a name, social security number, rescission of paternity form and the Department of appropriate putative father registry prior to request for an acknowledgment of paternity. address, and signature. is filed, the clerk of the Health and Human Services, this time shall bar the alleged father from town or city shall remove and the hospital that was the bringing an action to establish his paternity the name of the father from originator of the affidavit of of the child and shall constitute an the birth record and insert paternity, if applicable. abandonment of the child and a waiver of ''not stated'' in the space any right to a notice of hearing in any provided for the father's adoption proceeding concerning the child. name or, if the original birth Any person entitled to notice from the court record was filed prior to the shall have 30 days from the date of the completion of an affidavit of court's notice to request a hearing at which paternity, change the he shall have the burden of proving that he child's name on the birth is the legal or birth father of the child. record back to the name stated on the original record before the affidavit of paternity was filed. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information NJ No Putative Father Registry N.J. Ann. Stat. § 9:17-41: The parent and child relationship N.J. Ann. Stat. § 26:8-28.1: N.J. Ann. Stat. § 9:17-41: A between a child and the natural father may be established The certificate of parentage signed voluntary by: proof that his paternity has been adjudicated under shall include: a sworn acknowledgment can be prior law or under the laws governing probate, giving full statement by the father that he rescinded within 60 days of faith and credit to a determination of paternity made by any is the natural father of the the date of signing, or by other State or jurisdiction; a default judgment or order of child; the Social Security the date of establishment of the court; or by an order of the court based on a blood test numbers and addresses of the a support order to which or genetic test. father and mother; and the the signatory is a party, signature of the mother and whichever is earlier. The father authenticated by a adjudication of paternity witness or notary. shall only be voided upon a finding that there exists clear and convincing evidence of fraud, duress, or a material mistake of fact. NM N.M. Ann. Stat. § 32A-5-20: Established the N.M. Ann. Stat. § 24-14-13: At or before the birth of a child N.M. Ann. Stat. § 32A-5-20: N.M. Ann. Stat. § 32A-5-20: N.M. Ann. Stat. § 32A-5-20: putative father registry in the Department of to an unmarried woman, the person in charge of the The following information shall A person who has filed a Upon request, the Health to record the names and addresses institution, a designated representative, the attending be included in the notice of notice of intent to claim Department of Health may of: any person adjudicated by a court of this physician, or the midwife shall provide an opportunity for intent to claim paternity of a paternity may at any time release the names and State to be the father of a child; any person the child's mother and natural father to complete an child or an acknowledgment of revoke a notice previously address of those listed in the who has filed with the registry before or after acknowledgment of paternity. The completed affidavit shall paternity: the father's name filed. registry to: any court, the birth of a child out of wedlock, a notice of be filed with the Vital Statistics Bureau of the Public Health and address, the mother's department or an agency, intent to claim paternity of the child; any Division of the department. name and any other identifying the petitioner's attorney, and person who has filed with the registry an information requested by the the mother. The information instrument acknowledging paternity; or any Department, and the child's shall not be divulged to any person adjudicated by a court of another name and any other other person, except upon State or territory of the United States to be information requested by the order of the court for good the father of an out-of-wedlock child, when a Department. The Department cause shown. certified copy of the court order has been of Health shall be notified of filed with the registry. any change in address. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information NY N.Y. Soc. Serv. Law § 372-c: Established N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 4135-b: Immediately preceding or N.Y. Soc. Serv. Law § 372-c: N.Y. Soc. Serv. Law § 372- N.Y. Soc. Serv. Law § 372- the putative father registry that shall record following the in-hospital birth of a child to an unmarried A person filing a notice of c: A person who has filed a c: The department shall, the names and addresses of: any person woman, the person in charge of such hospital shall provide intent to claim paternity of a notice of intent to claim upon request, provide the adjudicated by a court of this State to be the to the child's mother and putative father, if such father is child or an acknowledgment of paternity may at any time names and addresses of father of a child born out of wedlock; any readily identifiable and available, the documents and paternity shall include his revoke a notice of intent to persons listed with the person who has filed with the registry, written instructions necessary for such mother and putative current address and shall claim paternity previously registry to any court or before or after the birth of a child out of father to complete an acknowledgment of paternity notify the registry of any filed. authorized agency, and such wedlock, a notice of intent to claim paternity witnessed by two persons not related to the signatory. change of address. information shall not be of the child; any person adjudicated by a divulged to any other court of another State or territory of the person, except upon order of United States to be the father of an out-of- a court for good cause wedlock child, where a certified copy of the shown. court order has been filed with the registry by such person or any other person; any person who has filed with the registry an instrument acknowledging paternity. NC No Putative Father Registry N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 48-2-206; 49-10: At any time after six months from the date of conception, the birth mother, agency, or adoptive parents may file a special proceeding requesting the court to determine whether consent of the biological father is required. The biological father shall be served with notice of the intent of the biological mother to place the child for adoption, allowing the biological father 15 days after service to assert a claim that his consent is required. If the biological father fails to respond within the time required, the court shall enter an order that the biological father's consent is not required for the adoption. A biological father who fails to respond within the time required under this section is not entitled to notice of an adoption petition filed within three months of the birth of the minor or to participate in the adoption proceeding. The putative father of any child born out of wedlock, whether such father resides in North Carolina or not, may apply by a verified written petition asking that such child be declared legitimate. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information ND No Putative Father Registry N.D. Cent. Code §§ 14-20-11; 14-20-12; 14-20-50: The N.D. Cent. Code § 14-20-12: N.D. Cent. Code §§ 14-20- N.D. Cent. Code § 14-20-23: mother of a child and a man claiming to be the father of the An acknowledgement of 17; 14-20-18: A signatory Information may be released child may sign an acknowledgment of paternity with intent paternity must: be in a record; may rescind an related to the to establish the man's paternity. A presumed father may be signed, or otherwise acknowledgment of acknowledgement of sign an acknowledgment of paternity. A respondent in a authenticated, under penalty of paternity by commencing a paternity to the signatory of proceeding to adjudicate parentage may admit to the perjury by the mother and by proceeding to rescind the acknowledgment, courts, paternity of a child by filing a pleading to that effect or by the man seeking to establish before the earlier of 60 or the appropriate State or admitting paternity under penalty of perjury when making his paternity; state that the days after the effective date Federal agencies of this or an appearance or during a hearing. If the court finds that child whose paternity is being of the acknowledgment or another State. the admission of paternity satisfies the requirements of this acknowledged does not have a denial or before the date of section and finds that there is no reason to question the presumed father or another the first hearing in a admission, the court shall issue an order adjudicating the acknowledged or adjudicated proceeding to which the child to be the child of the man admitting paternity. father; state whether there has signatory is a party with an been genetic testing and, if so, issue relating to the child. that the acknowledging man's After the period for claim of paternity is consistent rescission has expired, a with the results of the testing; signatory of an and state that the signatories acknowledgment of understand that the paternity may commence a acknowledgment is the proceeding to challenge the equivalent of a judicial acknowledgment only on adjudication of paternity of the the basis of fraud, duress, child and that a challenge to or material mistake of fact the acknowledgment is or within one year after the permitted only under limited acknowledgment is filed circumstances and is barred with the State Department after one year. of Health. OH Ohio Rev. Code § 3107.062: Established Ohio Rev. Code §§ 3111.02; 3111.31: The parent and Ohio Rev. Code §§ 3107.062; Ohio Rev. Code §§ Ohio Rev. Code § 3107.063: the putative father registry in the child relationship between a child and the natural father of 3111.31: To register in the 3111.27; 3111.28: For an The department may provide Department of Job and Family Services. A the child may be established by an acknowledgment of putative father registry, a acknowledgment of a certified copy of the man's putative father may register before or not paternity. The Department of Job and Family Services putative father must complete paternity to be rescinded, registration form to the later than 30 days after the birth of the child. shall prepare an acknowledgment of paternity affidavit that a registration form and submit not later than 60 days after mother and an agency or includes the rights and responsibilities of and the due it to the department. The the date of the latest attorney arranging a minor's process safeguards afforded to a person who registration form shall include signature on the adoption. acknowledges that he is the natural father of a child. the putative father's name and acknowledgment, one of address and the name of the the persons who signed it mother of the minor. The must do both of the affidavit for acknowledgment of following: request a Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information paternity shall include all of the determination of whether following: the full name, Social there is a parent and child Security number, date of birth, relationship between the and address of each parent; man who signed the the full name, date of birth, and acknowledgment and the the residence of the child; an child who is the subject of it affirmation by the mother that and give the office written the information she supplied is notice of the name of the true to the best of her child support enforcement knowledge; an affirmation by agency conducting genetic the father that the information tests to determine whether he supplied is true to the best there is a parent and child of his knowledge and belief, relationship. After an that he has received acknowledgment becomes information regarding his legal final, a man presumed to rights and responsibilities, that be the father of the child he consents to the jurisdiction who did not sign the of the courts of the State, and acknowledgment, either that he is the natural father of person who signed the the child named on the form acknowledgment, or a and assumes the parental duty guardian or legal custodian of support of the child; the of the child may bring an signatures of the mother of the action to rescind the child, the natural father, and acknowledgment on the the notary public; and any basis of fraud, duress, or other evidence necessary to material mistake of fact. complete the new birth record. An action pursuant shall be brought no later than one year after the acknowledgment becomes final. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information OK Okla. Ann. Stat. tit. 10, § 7506-1.1: Okla. Ann. Stat. tit. 63, § 1-311.3: Unless an adoption Okla. Ann. Stat. tit. 10, § 7506- Okla. Ann. Stat. tit. 10, § Okla. Ann. Stat. tit. 10, § Established a centralized paternity registry decree has been presented, and consent to adoption has 1.1: A putative father who 7506-1.2: A putative father 7506-1.1: The department, within the Department of Human Services. been given as otherwise provided by law, upon the birth of registers shall provide to the may revoke a notice of upon request, shall provide The purpose of the registry is to protect the a child to an unmarried woman, the person required to department: the father's name, intent to claim paternity at the names and addresses of parental rights of a putative father who may prepare and file a birth certificate shall: provide information address, Social Security any time by submitting a persons listed with the wish to affirmatively assume responsibility to the child's mother and/or natural father and an number, date of birth, tribal signed, notarized statement registry to any court or for children he may have fathered and acknowledgment of paternity on a form prescribed by the affiliation, if any and the revoking the notice of intent authorized agency and other expedite adoptions of children whose Department of Human Services; provide information, mother's name, including all to claim paternity. If a court persons deemed necessary biological fathers are unwilling to assume furnished by the Department of Human Services, to the other names known to the determines that the to receive such information. responsibility for their children by registering mother and acknowledging father; and, provide the original putative father that the mother registrant is not the father The information shall not be with the registry or otherwise acknowledging acknowledgment of paternity to the State Department of uses. of the child, the court shall divulged to any other person their children. The father or putative father Health, Division of Vital Records. order that the department except upon order of a court of a child born out of wedlock may file: a remove the registrant's for good cause shown. notice of desire to receive notification of an name from the registry. adoption proceeding concerning the minor; a notice of intent to claim paternity of the child; an instrument acknowledging paternity of the child; a waiver of interest; or any other claim for acknowledging or denial of paternity. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information OR No Putative Father Registry Ore. Rev. Stat. § 109.070: Paternity of a person may be Ore. Rev. Stat. § 432.287: Ore. Rev. Stat. § 109.070: Ore. Rev. Stat. § 432.287: established through the following: by a presumption of The Director of Human A party to a voluntary Upon request, the State paternity; by the marriage of the parents of a child after the Services shall adopt a form of acknowledgment of Registrar shall provide a birth of the child, and the parents filing with the State a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity may rescind the copy of any voluntary Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics the voluntary paternity that must contain: a acknowledgment within the acknowledgment of paternity acknowledgment of paternity form; by filiation proceedings; statement of rights and earlier of: 60 days after form to the State agency by filing with the State Registrar of the Center for Health responsibilities, including any filing the acknowledgment responsible for Statistics the voluntary acknowledgment of paternity form; rights afforded to a minor or the date of a proceeding administration of the child by having established paternity through a voluntary parent; a statement of the relating to the child, support enforcement acknowledgment of paternity process in another State; or alternatives to and including a proceeding to program. by paternity being established or declared by other consequences of signing the establish a support order, provision of law. acknowledgment; the Social in which the party wishing Security numbers and to rescind the addresses of the parents; the acknowledgment is also a signatures of both parents, party. To rescind the witnessed by a third party. acknowledgment, the party shall sign and file with the State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics a written document declaring the rescission. A signed voluntary acknowledgment of paternity filed may be challenged and set aside in circuit court at any time after the 60-day period on the basis of fraud, duress, or a material mistake of fact. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information PA Penn. Cons. Stat. tit. 23, § 5103: The name of the father Penn. Cons. Stat. tit. 23, § Penn. Cons. Stat. tit. 23, § shall be included on the record of birth of the child of 5103: An acknowledgement of 5103: A signed, voluntary, unmarried parents only if one of the following applies: the paternity shall contain: a witnessed acknowledgment father and mother have signed a voluntary signed, witnessed statement of paternity can be acknowledgment of paternity or a court has issued an by the birth mother and birth rescinded within the earlier adjudication of paternity. father consenting to the of the following: 60 days or acknowledgment of paternity; the date of an Penn. Cons. Stat. tit. 23, § 5103: The father of a child born a written explanation of the administrative or judicial to an unmarried woman may file with the Department of parental duties and parental proceeding relating to the Public Welfare an acknowledgment of paternity of the child rights that arise from signing child. After the expiration that shall include the consent of the mother of the child. If such a statement; and the of the 60 days, an the mother of the child fails or refuses to join in the Social Security numbers and acknowledgment of acknowledgment of paternity, the Department of Public addresses of both birth paternity may be Welfare shall index it as a claim of paternity. The filing of a parents. challenged in court only on claim of paternity shall not confer upon the putative father the basis of fraud, duress, any rights as to the child except that the putative father or material mistake of fact shall be entitled to notice of any proceeding brought to that must be established by terminate any parental rights. An acknowledgment of the challenger through paternity shall constitute conclusive evidence of paternity clear and convincing without further judicial ratification in any action to establish evidence. support. The court shall give full faith and credit to an acknowledgment of paternity signed in another State according to its procedures. RI No Putative Father Registry R.I. Gen. Laws § 15-8-27: A man may acknowledge his R.I. Gen. Laws § 15-8-3: paternity of a child in a writing filed with the clerk of the The sworn family court. Each acknowledgement must be signed acknowledgment of by the person filing it and contain: the name, social paternity becomes a security number, date of birth, and address of the conclusive presumption if person filing the acknowledgement; the name and there is no court challenge to this acknowledgment last known address of the mother of the child; the within 60 days of the date of birth of the child, or, if the child is unborn, the signing of this month and year in which the child is expected to be acknowledgment. The only born; and the name and address of the presumed defenses that may be father, if any. A copy of the acknowledgement shall raised to the signing of this be served upon the mother and any presumed father. acknowledgment after the 60-day period are fraud, duress, or mistake of fact. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information SC No Putative Father Registry S.C. Ann. Code § 63-17-790: The Child Support S.C. Ann. Code § 63-17-60: Enforcement Division may establish paternity of a child by The following evidence is serving the alleged father with a notice of paternity admissible at a hearing to determination which shall include: an allegation that the determine paternity: results of alleged father is the natural father of the child; the child's genetic tests properly verified name and date of birth; the name of the child's mother and to show the chain of custody of the name of the person or agency having custody of the blood samples; the refusal of a child, if other than the mother; a statement that if the party to submit to a genetic or alleged father fails to timely deny the allegation of paternity, other ordered test as to the the question of paternity may be resolved against the credibility of a party; test alleged father without further notice; or a statement that if results which show a statistical the alleged father timely denies the allegation of paternity, probability of paternity; a the alleged father is subject to compulsory genetic testing verified voluntary and upon receipt of the genetic test results, if the alleged acknowledgment of paternity; father continues to deny paternity, the alleged father may or a birth certificate containing request the division to refer the matter to Family Court for a the signature of the mother determination of paternity. and the putative father. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information SD S.D. Ann. Laws §§ 25-8-7; 25-8-7.1: An action to S.D. Ann. Laws § 25-8-59: determine paternity is a civil action and they are not Any action contesting a exclusive of other proceedings that may be available on rebuttable presumption of principles of law or equity. Upon determining paternity of a paternity shall be child, the court shall give judgment declaring the paternity commenced in circuit court of the father to the child. In any action or proceeding in either 60 days after the which the parentage of a child is at issue, the court shall, creation of the presumption for good cause shown, order the mother, the child, or any of paternity or the date of alleged father to submit to an examination of blood, tissue, any administrative or or other bodily substances for the purpose of testing any judicial proceedings genetic systems that are generally accepted for the relating to the child, except conclusive determination of paternity probability. The in cases where there are results of the tests, together with the opinions and allegations of fraud, duress, conclusions of the testing laboratory, shall be filed with the or material mistake of fact. court. In cases involving allegations of fraud, duress, S. D. Ann. Laws § 25-8-50; 25-8-63: Upon the birth of a or material mistake of fact, child to an unmarried woman, any hospital, physician, any action contesting a health care provider, midwife, or nurse who assists in the rebuttable presumption of birth of the child shall: provide an opportunity for the child's paternity shall be mother and alleged father to sign under oath an affidavit of commenced within three paternity and provide to the mother and to the alleged years after the creation of father any necessary information furnished by the any presumption. Department of Social Services that describes, their rights and responsibilities of being a parent, the benefits of establishing paternity, and that completion of the affidavit of paternity is voluntary and is not required of either the mother or the alleged father. Every affidavit or adjudication of paternity shall be filed with the Department of Health for comparison with information contained within the State case registry. TN Tenn. Ann. Code § 36-2-318: Established a Tenn. Ann. Code § 36-2-305: The court may enter an Tenn. Ann. Code § 36-2-318: Tenn. Ann. Code § 36-2- putative father registry in the Department of order of parentage upon the agreement of the mother and The registry shall contain the 318: A person who has Children's Services. Those persons father unless the court on its own motion orders genetic information on the following: filed a notice of intent to contained on the registry shall be given testing. In any such agreement, the mother and father must those persons, their claim parentage may notice by the petitioners in proceedings for affirmatively acknowledge their parentage of the child. addresses, the name of the revoke the notice at any the adoption of a child or for the termination Absent an agreement or an acknowledgment of parentage, child, and the name of the time in writing to the of parental rights involving a child, and they a complaint to establish parentage may be filed by: the biological mother of the child, registry, and upon receipt shall be necessary parties to the child, if the child has reached the age of majority, or if the for whom the registrar of the of such notification by the Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information proceedings. child is a minor, the child through a guardian or next friend; Division of Vital Records has a registry, the notice of intent the child's mother, or if the mother is a minor, the mother's record that an order of to claim parentage shall be personal representative, parent, or guardian; a man parentage has been entered; deemed a nullity as of the claiming to be the child's father, or if the man is a minor, those persons who have filed date it is filed. the man's parent, guardian, or personal representative; or with the registry a certified the Department of Human Services. copy of a court order from this State or any other State or territory of the United States or any other country that adjudicates such person to be a father of a child born out of wedlock; those persons who have filed with the registry a copy of a sworn acknowledgment of parentage; or those persons who have filed only a written notice of intent to claim paternity of a child with the putative father registry either prior to, or within 30 days after, the birth of such child. The following information shall be included in the written notice of intent to claim parentage of a child: The person's name, current address, and current telephone number; the name of the child; the name of the child's biological mother; the current legal or physical custodian and that person's address and telephone number; and any other information that may identify the child and the child's whereabouts. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information TX Texas Family Code §§ 160.401; 160.402: Texas Family Code §§ 160.301; 160.302; 160.402; Texas Family Code §§ Texas Family Code §§ Texas Family Code § Established a registry of paternity in the 160.601: The mother of a child and a man claiming to be 160.411; 160.402: The Bureau 160.414; 160.307; 160.308; 160.412: The bureau shall Bureau of Vital Statistics. A man who the biological father of the child may sign an of Vital Statistics shall adopt a 160.414: A signatory may send a copy of the notice of desires to be notified of a proceeding for the acknowledgment of paternity with the intent to establish the form for registering with the rescind an the registration to a mother adoption of or the termination of parental man's paternity. An acknowledgment of paternity must: be registry. The signed form must acknowledgment of who has provided an rights regarding a child that he may have in a record; be signed, or otherwise authenticated by the state that: a timely registration paternity by commencing a address. Information fathered may register with the registry of mother and the man seeking to establish paternity; state entitles the registrant to notice proceeding to rescind contained in the registry is paternity before the birth of the child or not that the child whose paternity is being acknowledged does of a proceeding for adoption of before the earlier of 60 confidential and may be later than the 31st day after the date of the not have a presumed father or another acknowledged or the child or for termination of days after the effective date released on request only to: birth of the child. adjudicated father; state whether there has been genetic the registrant's parental rights; of the acknowledgment or a court or a person testing and, if so, that the acknowledging man's claim of a timely registration does not the date of the first hearing designated by the court; the paternity is consistent with the results of the testing; and commence a proceeding to in a proceeding to which mother of the child who is state that the signatories understand that the establish paternity; the the signatory is a party the subject of the acknowledgment is the equivalent of a judicial adjudication information disclosed on the before a court to adjudicate registration; an agency of the paternity of the child and that a challenge to the form may be used against the an issue relating to the authorized by law to receive acknowledgment is permitted only under limited registrant to establish child. After the period for the information; a licensed circumstances and is barred after four years. A man is paternity; services to assist in rescission has expired, a child-placing agency; a entitled to notice of a proceeding regardless of whether he establishing paternity are signatory of an support enforcement registers with the registry of paternity if a father-child available to the registrant acknowledgment of agency; a party, or the relationship between the man and the child has been through the support paternity may commence a party's attorney of record, to established of if the man commences a proceeding to enforcement agency; the proceeding to challenge the a proceeding to adopt or to adjudicate his paternity before the court has terminated his registrant should also register acknowledgment only on terminate parental rights parental rights. in another State if the the basis of fraud, duress, regarding a child who is the conception or birth of the child or material mistake of fact. subject of the registration; occurred in the other State; A registrant may rescind and the registry of paternity information on registries in his registration at any time in another State. other States is available from by sending to the registry a the bureau; and procedures rescission in a record or exist to rescind the registration another manner of a claim of paternity. authenticated by him and witnessed or notarized. UT Utah Ann. Code § 36-2-318: Establishes a Utah Ann. Code §§ 78-45g-301; 78-45g-302; 78-45g-601; Utah Ann. Code § 78-45g-302: Utah Ann. Code §§ 78-45g- Utah Ann. Code §§ 78-45g- Putative Father Registry in the Department 78-45g-622 : The mother of a child and a man claiming to A declaration of paternity must: 306; 78-45g-307: A 312; 78-45g-405: The Office of Children's Services. Those persons be the genetic father of the child may sign a declaration of be in a record; be signed by signatory may rescind a of Vital Records may release contained on the registry shall be given paternity to establish the paternity of the child. The the birth mother and declarant declaration of paternity by information relating to the notice in proceedings for the adoption of a declaration of paternity shall be in a form prescribed by the father in the presence of two filing a voluntary rescission declaration of paternity to a child or for the termination of parental rights. Office of Vital Records and shall be accompanied with a witnesses who are not related document with the Office of signatory of the declaration written and verbal notice of the alternatives to, the legal by blood or marriage; state Vital Records in a form or denial. Information consequences of, and the rights and responsibilities that that the child whose paternity prescribed by the office contained in the records is Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information arise from signing the declaration. The declaration of is being declared does not before the earlier of 60 confidential and may be paternity shall become an amendment to the original birth have a presumed father or days after the effective date released on request only to: certificate. A declaration of paternity may be completed another declarant or of the declaration or the a tribunal or a person and signed any time after the birth of the child. A adjudicated father; state date of notice of the first designated by the tribunal; declaration of paternity may not be signed or filed after whether there has been adjudicative proceeding to the mother of the child who consent to or relinquishment for adoption has been signed. genetic testing and, if so, that which the signatory is a is the subject of the filing; an The parentage of a child may also be determined at an the declarant man's claim of party to adjudicate an issue agency authorized by law to adjudicative proceeding. The tribunal shall issue an order paternity is consistent with the relating to the child. Upon receive the information; a adjudicating whether a man alleged or claiming to be the results of the testing; and state receiving a voluntary licensed child-placing father is the parent of the child. that the signatories understand rescission document from a agency; the Office of that the declaration is the signatory, the Office of Vital Recovery Services, the equivalent of a legal finding of Records shall provide Office of the Attorney paternity of the child. If either notice of the rescission, by General, or a support- the birth mother or the father is mail, to the other signatory enforcement agency of a minor, the voluntary at the last-known address another State or Tribe; a declaration must also be of that signatory. After the party or the party's attorney signed by that minor's parent period for rescission has of record in a proceeding for or legal guardian. A presumed expired, a signatory of a adoption of, or for father may sign or otherwise declaration of paternity or a termination of parental rights authenticate an support-enforcement regarding a child who is the acknowledgment of paternity. agency may commence a subject of the filing; and the The Social Security number of proceeding to challenge the registry of paternity in any person who is subject to declaration only on the another State. declaration of paternity shall basis of fraud, duress, or be placed in the records material mistake of fact. A relating to the matter. challenge brought on the basis of fraud or duress may be commenced at any time. A challenge brought on the basis of a material mistake of fact, including genetic testing, may be commenced within four years after the declaration is filed. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information VT No Putative Father Registry Vermont Ann. Stat. tit. 15A, §§ 3-503; 3-403; tit. 15B, § 701: A parent or alleged parent who has not consented to the adoption or whose parental rights have not been terminated will be served a petition to terminate and a notice of the hearing. If the respondent fails to respond within 20 days and, in the case of an alleged father, fails to file a claim of paternity within 20 days after service unless a claim of paternity is pending, the respondent may not appear in or receive further notice of the proceeding for adoption or termination. VA Virginia Ann. Code §§ 63.2-1249; 63.2- Virginia Ann. Code § 20-49.1: The parent-child relationship Virginia Ann. Code § 63.2- Virginia Ann. Code § 20- Virginia Ann. Code § 63.2- 1250: Established a Putative Father may be established by reliable genetic tests, including 1250: Information on the 49.1: An acknowledgment 1251: If an address is Registry in the Department of Social blood tests, that affirm at least a 98 percent probability of Notice shall include the of paternity may be provided, the department Services. A man must register with the paternity or a voluntary written statement of the father and registrant's name, date of birth, rescinded by either party shall send a copy of the Putative Father Registry before the birth of mother made under oath acknowledging paternity. Social Security number, within 60 days from the notice of registration to the the child or within ten days after the birth. A driver's license number, date on which it was mother. Information person who fails to register shall waive all address, telephone number, signed. A written contained in the registry is rights of a man who is not an and the name of employer; the statement shall have the confidential and shall only acknowledged, presumed, or adjudicated name, date of birth, ethnicity, same legal effect as a be released upon request to: father to withhold consent to an adoption address, and telephone judgment and shall be a court or a person proceeding unless the man was led to number of the putative mother, binding and conclusive designated by the court; the believe through the birth mother's fraud that if known; the state of unless, in a subsequent mother of the child; an the pregnancy was terminated or the mother conception; and, the name, judicial proceeding, the agency authorized to receive miscarried when in fact the baby was born, place of birth, gender, and person challenging the such information; a licensed or that the child died when in fact the child is birth date of the child, if known. statement establishes that child-placing agency; a alive. Any man who has engaged in sexual the statement resulted from support enforcement intercourse with a woman is deemed to be fraud, duress, or a material agency; a putative father on legal notice that a child may be mistake of fact. registry in another state; or, conceived and the man is entitled to all legal the party's attorney of record rights and obligations resulting therefrom. in an adoption proceeding or Lack of knowledge of the pregnancy does in a proceeding of not excuse failure to register in a timely termination of parental manner. rights. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information WA No Putative Father Registry Wash. Rev. Code § 26.26.101: The father-child relationship Wash. Rev. Code § 26.26.355: Wash. Rev. Code §§ Wash. Rev. Code § is established by: an unrebutted presumption of the man's The acknowledgment of 26.26.330; 26.26.335: A 26.26.360: Information paternity of the child; the man's having signed an paternity shall state that person may rescind an relating to the acknowledgment of paternity; an adjudication of a man's signing the acknowledgment of acknowledgment of acknowledgment of paternity; an adoption of the child by the man, the man's paternity is equivalent to an paternity by commencing a paternity, not expressly having consented to assisted reproduction by his wife that adjudication of paternity. court proceeding to rescind sealed under a court order, resulted in the birth of the child, a valid surrogate before 60 days after the may be released to: a parentage contract. effective date of the signatory of the acknowledgment or the acknowledgment or their Wash. Rev. Code §§ 26.26.300; 26.26.305: The mother of date of the first hearing in a attorneys of record, the a child and a man claiming to be the father of the child may proceeding to which the courts, the agencies sign an acknowledgment of paternity with intent to signatory is a party before operating a child support establish the man's paternity. An acknowledgement of a court to adjudicate an program under title IV-D of paternity must be in a record, signed by the mother and issue relating to the child, the Social Security Act, or man claiming paternity, state the child's name, state including a proceeding that the agencies involved in a whether there has been genetic testing, and state that the establishes support. After dependency determination persons signing the acknowledgement understand that it is the period for rescission for a child named in the the equivalent of a judicial adjudication of paternity of the has elapsed, a person may acknowledgment of child. commence a proceeding to paternity. challenge the acknowledgment only on the basis of fraud or within two years after the acknowledgment is filed. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information WV No Putative Father Registry W.V. Ann. Code §§ 48-24-101; 48-24-106: A civil action to Not addressed in statute Not addressed in statute Not addressed in statute establish the paternity of a child may be instituted in the family court of the county where the child resides. A ''paternity proceeding'' is a summary proceeding where a family court may intervene to determine and protect the respective personal rights of a child for whom paternity has not been lawfully established. A paternity proceeding may be brought by the mother of a child, the State, a person who has legal or physical custody of the child, the child's guardian, the child after his 18th birthday but before his 21st birthday, or a man who believes he is the father of a child born out of wedlock when there has been no prior judicial determination of paternity. A written, notarized acknowledgment legally establishes the man as the father of the child. Required Information to Revocation of Paternity State Putative Father Registry Alternative Means to Establish Paternity Establish Paternity Claim Access to Information WI No Putative Father Registry Wisc. Ann. Stat. §§ 767.80; 767.805: A statement Wisc. Ann. Stat. § 48.025: The Wisc. Ann. Stat. § 48.025; Wisc. Ann. Stat. § 48.025: acknowledging paternity that is on file with the State declaration shall contain the 767.805: A person who The department shall keep Registrar after the last day on which a person may rescind following information: the has filed a declaration with confidential and may not the statement in a timely manner is a conclusive person's name and address, the department may revoke disclose the contents of any determination that has the same effect as a judgment of the name and last known the declaration at any time declaration. The exception paternity. The following individuals may request the address of the mother, the by filing with the is that a copy shall be sent determination of paternity: the child, the child's mother, the month and year of the birth or department a statement to the mother at her last- male presumed or alleged to be the father, the State, the expected birth of the child, and stating they are not the known address and to a custodian of the child, or the child's guardian ad litem. a statement that the person father of the child. A filed court if the court requests filing the declaration believes statement acknowledging the department search its Wisc. Ann. Stat. § 48.025: Any person claiming to be the he may be the father. paternity may be rescinded files to determine whether a father of a non-marital child who is not adopted and whose by either person who person who may be the paternity has not been established may file with the signed the statement as a father of the child who is the department a declaration of his interest in matters affecting parent of the registrant if subject of the proceeding the child. A declaration may be filed at any time before a certain criteria apply, has filed a declaration. termination of the father's parental rights and at any time including that the person before the birth of the child or within 14 days after the birth rescinding the statement of the child. files the document before the day on which a court makes an order in an action affecting the family involving the man who signed the statement and the child who is the subject of the statement or before 60 days elapse after the statement was filed. WY Wyo. Ann. Stat. § 1-22-117: The Wyo. Ann. Stat. § 1-22-108: The putative father has no Wyo. Ann. Stat. § 1-22-117: A Wyo. Ann. Stat. § 1-22- Wyo. Ann. Stat. § 1-22-117: Department of Family Services shall right to assert paternity in adoption, dependency, or person filing a notice of intent 117: A person who has Upon request, the establish a putative father registry to record termination of parental rights proceedings unless he is to claim paternity of a child or filed a notice of intent to department shall provide the the name and addresses of any person identified by the mother or agency, he has lived with or an acknowledgment of claim paternity may at any names and addresses of adjudicated to be the father of a child born married the mother after the birth of the child and prior to paternity shall include his time revoke the notice of persons listed with the out of wedlock, a person who has filed with the filing of the petition to adopt, or prior to the adoption current address and shall intent and, upon receipt of registry to any court or the registry a notice of intent to claim proceedings, he has acknowledged the child as his own by notify the registry of any the notification by the authorized agency. paternity of the child, or any person who has affirmatively asserting paternity or registered as a putative change of address. registry, the revoked notice filed with the registry an acknowledgement father. of intent to claim paternity of paternity. shall be deemed rescinded.