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