252K.701 - PROCEEDING TO DETERMINE PARENTAGE.
252K.701 PROCEEDING TO DETERMINE PARENTAGE.
1. A tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating or
responding tribunal in a proceeding brought under this chapter or a
law or procedure substantially similar to this chapter, the Uniform
Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, or the Revised Uniform
Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act to determine that the
petitioner is a parent of a particular child or to determine that a
respondent is a parent of that child.
2. In a proceeding to determine parentage, a responding tribunal
of this state shall apply the procedural and substantive laws
pursuant to chapters 252A and 252F, and the rules of this state on
choice of law. Section History: Recent Form
97 Acts, ch 175, §175