CHAPTER 209C CHILDREN BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK
- Section 1 Declaration of purpose; definition; responsibility for support
- 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 paternity 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