Sentences with phrase «acknowledge paternity of the child»

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Also well known, though rarely acknowledged, is the devastation that such a lack of paternity has wreaked on children and society more generally.

If the father of your child will not voluntarily acknowledge paternity, then you have the right to petition the court to require a genetic test.

The extent to which you are acknowledged as the parent of the child by the mother and others, and the extent to which you are involved in a child's life is also relevant to legal paternity, because a termination of parental rights can proceed in the absence of showing these things.

Both parents can sign the child's birth certificate after she is born; the father and mother can sign a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity or the father can take a paternity test and petition the court to acknowledge him as the child's legal father.