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Code of Alabama - Title 26: Infants And Incompetents - Chapter 1 - Alabama Uniform Parentage Act
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- Section 26-17-1 Short title
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Alabama Uniform Parentage Act. ...
- Section 26-17-2 Parent and child relationship - Defined
As used in this chapter, the term "parent and child relationship" shall mean the legal relationship existing between a child and his natural or ...
- Section 26-17-3 Parent and child relationship - Relationship not dependent upon marriage
The parent and child relationship shall extend equally to every child and to every parent, regardless of the marital status of the parents. ...
- Section 26-17-4 Parent and child relationship - How established
The parent and child relationship may be established between a child and: (1) The natural mother by proof of her having given birth to ...
- Section 26-17-5 Presumption of paternity; rebuttal
(a) A man is presumed to be the natural father of a child if any of the following apply: (1) He and the child's ...
- Section 26-17-6 Action to determine father and child relationship
(a) A child, a child's natural mother, or a man presumed to be the child's father under subdivision (1), (2), or (3) of Section ...
- Section 26-17-7 Style of proceedings; prosecution of proceedings
Actions commenced under this chapter by the Department of Human Resources shall be in the name of the State of Alabama on relation of ...
- Section 26-17-8 Limitation on liability for education and support; when action for purposes of support may be brought; rights of inheritance and succession
(a) The father's liabilities for past education and necessary support are limited to a period of two years next preceding the commencement of an ...
- Section 26-17-9 Nature of actions; rules of procedure; who may testify; other evidence; joinder; pleadings; enforcement of support under criminal code
(a) An action under this chapter is a civil action governed by the rules of civil procedure. The mother and child and the alleged ...
- Section 26-17-10 Jurisdiction; venue; where complaint filed; process; conduct of hearing; jury
(a) The causes of action provided by this chapter shall be brought in the juvenile or family court division of the district or circuit ...
- Section 26-17-11 Parties; representation of minor child; aligning parties
The child may be made a party to the action. If the child is a minor he shall be represented by his general guardian ...
- Section 26-17-12 Genetic tests; selection and compensation of experts; admissibility
(a) Upon application of the defendant in a paternity proceeding or any other party to the action, the court shall order the mother, child, ...
- Section 26-17-13 Evidence relating to paternity; refusal to testify; immunity; evidence of intercourse with other men; medical and health care bills
(a) Evidence relating to paternity may include any of the following: (1) Evidence of sexual intercourse between the mother and alleged father at any ...
- Section 26-17-14 Orders - Determinative for all purposes; provision for support; statement of jurisdiction in case of out-of-state service; new birth certificate; other provisions; how support to be paid; amount of support; proof required for support order
(a) The order of the court determining the existence or nonexistence of the parent and child relationship is determinative for all purposes. Upon paternity ...
- Section 26-17-15 Orders - Enforcement
(a) If the existence of the father and child relationship is declared, or paternity or a duty of support has been acknowledged or adjudicated ...
- Section 26-17-16 Promise to render support; stipulations barring paternity action
(a) Any promise in writing to furnish support for a child, growing out of a supposed or alleged father and child relationship does not ...
- Section 26-17-17 Right to counsel; representation of minors; fees, expenses, and costs
(a) In all proceedings under this chapter, any party may be represented by counsel. If the public authority chargeable by law with support of ...
- Section 26-17-18 Action to declare mother and child relationship
Any interested party may bring an action to determine the existence or nonexistence of a mother and child relationship. Insofar as practicable, the provisions ...
- Section 26-17-19 Issuance and contents of new birth certificate; confidentiality of evidence and original birth certificate
(a) Upon order of a court of this state or upon request of a court of another state, the Registrar of Vital Statistics shall ...
- Section 26-17-20 Appeals
(a) The State of Alabama, the person on the relation of whom the action is brought or the defendant may appeal from any final ...
- Section 26-17-21 Artificial insemination
(a) If, under the supervision of a licensed physician and with the consent of her husband, a wife is inseminated artificially with semen donated ...
- Section 26-17-22 Hospital paternity acknowledgement program
(a) The natural mother and father of a child born to a woman who was unmarried at the time of birth and had not ...
Last modified: August 6, 2008
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