Chapter 209C: CHILDREN BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK
- Section 1 Declaration of purpose; definition; responsibility for support
- Section 1A Definitions
- Section 2 Paternity; acknowledgment or adjudication; statistical information of parties; transmission to registrar
- Section 3 Paternity and support actions; jurisdiction; enforcement of prior orders or judgments; juvenile court commitment proceedings; parents convicted of first degree murder
- Section 4 Venue; service
- Section 5 Persons entitled to maintain actions or execute voluntary acknowledgment of parentage; parties
- Section 6 Presumption of paternity; mandatory joinder
- Section 7 Representation in parentage actions; appointment of counsel; burden of proof
- Section 8 Judgment of paternity; age of father; notice
- Section 9 Judgment or order for support; health insurance; financial statement; determination of amount; notice
- Section 10 Award of custody; criteria
- Section 11 Acknowledgment of parentage; approval; parental agreements regarding custody, support and visitation
- Section 12 Trial; exclusion of public
- Section 13 Inspection of documents; copies; segregation of records
- Section 14 Complaints brought prior to birth
- Section 15 Temporary orders; enforcement; information required to be given to petitioner; domestic violence record search
- Section 16 Competency to testify; refusal to testify; costs of tests; admissibility of evidence; failure of party to attend; testimony by telephone or affidavit
- Section 17 Genetic marker tests; affidavit; refusal to submit to test; costs
- Section 18 Judgments or orders of support; enforcement
- Section 19 Judgment or temporary order of support; enforcement
- Section 20 Modification of judgments; jurisdiction
- Section 21 Action to determine mother and child relationship
- Section 22 Proceedings barred under this chapter
- Section 23 Intermarriage of parents; jurisdiction
- Section 24 Forms
- Section 25 Adjudication of parentage of a child; commencement; governance; verified complaints; standing; temporary order of contact; de facto parent; third party right to visitation
- Section 26 Best interest of the child; parentage challenges and genetic testing; more than two parents; determination of custody, parenting time, visitation and child support
- Section 27 Application; venue; donor; assisted reproduction with the intent to be a parent; proceeding to adjudicate a spouse's parentage of a child born by assisted reproduction; consent; death of person who intends to be a parent; clinical or laboratory error; genetic testing; commencement of proceeding; final judgment; divorce
- Section 28 Application of sections 28 to 28P; venue
- Section 28 O Child conceived by assisted reproduction under a genetic surrogacy agreement; intended parents ; death of intended parent
- Section 28A Surrogacy agreements
- Section 28B Enforceability of surrogacy agreement
- Section 28C Surrogacy agreement; required terms; expenses; surrogate health and welfare decisions; termination of agreement; assignability of rights
- Section 28D Surrogacy agreement; marriage; divorce
- Section 28E Exclusive, continuing jurisdiction of court
- Section 28F Termination of surrogacy agreement; expenses; liability
- Section 28G Vesting of parental rights upon birth of child conceived by assisted reproduction; genetic testing; application
- Section 28H Death of intended parent before the transfer or implantation of a gamete or embryo
- Section 28I Judgment of parentage proceeding; order or judgment; parties; complaint; closed proceedings
- Section 28J Gestational surrogacy agreement; enforceability; remedies for breach; specific performance;
- Section 28K Validation of genetic surrogacy agreement; timing of order; termination
- Section 28L Termination of surrogacy agreement by intended parent or genetic surrogate; timing; expenses; liability
- Section 28M Birth of a child conceived by assisted reproduction under genetic surrogacy agreement; notice to court; clinical or laboratory error; genetic testing to determine the genetic parentage of the child
- Section 28N Genetic surrogacy agreement not validated under section 28K; enforceability; preponderance of the evidence ; adjudication of parentage; standing
- Section 28P Breach of genetic surrogacy agreement; remedies; specific performance