Paternity

State (Texas)
Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session

Relating to the child support obligation of certain obligors who are or were incarcerated. [HB-3332]
Relating to the child support obligation of certain obligors who are or were incarcerated.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Carl Sherman Read First Time on 03/15/2023

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Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session

Relating to requiring a man determined by adjudication or acknowledgment to be a child's father to pay retroactive child support beginning on the date of the child's conception. [HB-2163]
Relating to requiring a man determined by adjudication or acknowledgment to be a child's father to pay retroactive child support beginning on the date of the child's conception.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Tom Oliverson Read First Time on 03/09/2023

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Estates and Trusts – Registered Domestic Partnerships [HB-755]
Establishing requirements for the registration and termination of domestic partnerships with the register of wills; repealing provisions on legitimacy and illegitimacy of children and providing for the parentage of a child born or conceived by registered domestic partners; requiring the register of wills to recognize as domestic partnerships relationships established under the laws of other jurisdictions if the laws are substantially similar to the provisions of the Act; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jon Cardin Referred Rules on 03/29/2023

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Estates and Trusts - Registered Domestic Partnerships [SB-792]
Establishing requirements for the registration and termination of domestic partnerships with the register of wills; repealing provisions on legitimacy and illegitimacy of children and providing for the parentage of a child born or conceived by registered domestic partners; requiring the register of wills to recognize as domestic partnerships relationships established under the laws of other jurisdictions if the laws are substantially similar to the provisions of the Act; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Chris West Approved By The Governor - Chapter 647 on 05/16/2023

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2023 Regular Session

Public Health - Childbirth - Paternity Test [SB-410]
Requiring, when a child is born at a health care facility, the attending physician to offer to the presumed father of the child the option to take a paternity test; requiring the offer to take a paternity test be made orally and in writing and before a birth certificate form is completed for the child; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald Watson First Reading Finance on 02/01/2023

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State (Texas)
Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session

Relating to the establishment of parentage and the duty to pay child support. [HB-1734]
Relating to the establishment of parentage and the duty to pay child support.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jeff Leach Considered In Formal Meeting on 04/20/2023

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State (Texas)
Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session

Relating to a court order for retroactive child support, including for retroactive child support beginning on the date of the child's conception. [SB-590]
Relating to a court order for retroactive child support, including for retroactive child support beginning on the date of the child's conception.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Bryan Hughes Point Of Order Sustained Rule 8, Section 13(c) on 05/24/2023

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State (Louisiana)
Louisiana 2023 Regular Session

Provides relative to pregnancy-related medical expense obligations [HB-5]
Provides relative to pregnancy-related medical expense obligations

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Edmonds Effective Date: 08/01/2023. on 06/28/2023

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State (Texas)
Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session

Relating to the establishment of parentage and the duty to pay child support. [HB-532]
Relating to the establishment of parentage and the duty to pay child support.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Anderson Scheduled For Public Hearing On . . . on 04/12/2023

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State (Texas)
Texas 88th Legislature Regular Session

Relating to the duty to pay child support beginning on the date of the child's conception. [HB-604]
Relating to the duty to pay child support beginning on the date of the child's conception.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew Shaheen Read First Time on 02/23/2023

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State (Alabama)
Alabama Regular Session 2022

Presumption of paternity, maintenance of an action to disprove a presumed father's paternity, authorized in certain circumstances, Sec. 26-17-607 am'd. [HB-521]
Presumption of paternity, maintenance of an action to disprove a presumed father's paternity, authorized in certain circumstances, Sec. 26-17-607 am'd.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Gil Isbell Read For The First Time And Referred To The House Of Representatives Committee On Judiciary on 03/29/2022

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2022 Regular Session

Human Services - Commission on Fatherhood (Fatherhood Protection Act) [HB-1213]
Establishing the Commission on Fatherhood in the Department of Human Services to study and review the status of fatherhood in the State and to inform the Executive and Legislative Branches of State government on current issues that impact fathers; and prohibiting the Commission from adopting regulations; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Ric Metzgar Hearing 3/07 At 2:00 P.m. on 02/17/2022

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 112th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68, relative to voluntary acknowledgments of paternity. [HB-2699]
As enacted, removes the five-year statute of limitations for challenging a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity on the basis of fraud, duress, or mistake of fact; specifies, in regard to the provision whereby a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity signed by a child's mother and biological father constitutes a legal finding of paternity on the individual named as the father of the child in the acknowledgment, that the finding applies when the acknowledgement is signed by an unwed father. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Antonio Parkinson Comp. Became Pub. Ch. 863 on 04/26/2022

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 112th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68, relative to tests to determine parentage. [HB-2698]
As introduced, clarifies that a party to a civil or criminal proceeding in which the paternity of a child is at issue may voluntarily seek a genetic test from an accredited laboratory before a court issues an order requiring the genetic test. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Antonio Parkinson Def. To Summer Study In Civil Justice Committee on 04/06/2022

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 112th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68, relative to voluntary acknowledgments of paternity. [SB-1779]
As enacted, removes the five-year statute of limitations for challenging a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity on the basis of fraud, duress, or mistake of fact; specifies, in regard to the provision whereby a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity signed by a child's mother and biological father constitutes a legal finding of paternity on the individual named as the father of the child in the acknowledgment, that the finding applies when the acknowledgement is signed by an unwed father. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jon Lundberg Effective Date(s) 07/01/2022 on 04/26/2022

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 112th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68, relative to tests to determine parentage. [SB-1777]
As introduced, clarifies that a party to a civil or criminal proceeding in which the paternity of a child is at issue may voluntarily seek a genetic test from an accredited laboratory before a court issues an order requiring the genetic test. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jon Lundberg Re-refer To Senate Cal. Comm. on 03/17/2022

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State (Texas)
Texas 87th Legislature Regular Session

Relating to the deadline for filing a petition for the termination of the parent-child relationship in circumstances involving mistaken paternity. [HB-1185]
Relating to the deadline for filing a petition for the termination of the parent-child relationship in circumstances involving mistaken paternity.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Harold Dutton Read First Time on 03/04/2021

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 112th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68, relative to voluntary acknowledgments of paternity. [SB-172]
As introduced, increases from 60 days to 180 days the time period within which a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity can be rescinded; removes the five-year statute of limitations for challenging a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity on the basis of fraud, duress, or mistake of fact. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jon Lundberg Assigned To General Subcommittee Of Senate Judiciary Committee on 04/06/2021

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State (Tennessee)
Tennessee 112th General Assembly

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68, relative to voluntary acknowledgments of paternity. [HB-104]
As introduced, increases from 60 days to 180 days the time period within which a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity can be rescinded; removes the five-year statute of limitations for challenging a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity on the basis of fraud, duress, or mistake of fact. - Amends TCA Title 24, Chapter 7; Title 36 and Title 68.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Antonio Parkinson Failed In Civil Justice Committee on 03/17/2021

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State (Maryland)
Maryland 2019 Regular Session

Family Law - Parentage and Adoption [SB-697]
Providing that a child conceived by means of assisted reproduction during the marriage of the child's mother with the consent of the mother's spouse is the legitimate child of both spouses for all purposes; providing that a child conceived by means of assisted reproduction after the death of the mother's spouse and using the genetic material of the mother's spouse is the legitimate child of both spouses under certain circumstances; etc.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Susan Lee Approved By The Governor - Chapter 437 on 05/13/2019

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