Sentences with phrase «presumed father»

Presumed father means a man who, as described below, is recognized as the father of a child until that status is rebutted or confirmed in a judicial proceeding or by an agreed Acknowledgment of Paternity signed by the child's mother, father, and presumed father, that included the denial that the presumed father was the child's father and was filed with the Vital Statistics Unit.

The courts compel the presumed father to submit to DNA tests to establish paternity.

More specifically, a man is a presumed father if:

If a couple is married and has a child, the husband is presumed the father.

To terminate his parental rights, it would have to be proven that he is not the child's presumed father, legally speaking.

Instead of pointing out the father's abandonment, you can choose to simply point out that he does not fit the legal requirements of being the child's presumed father.

However, an unmarried father may need to establish himself as the baby's presumed father to preserve his right to disagree with the birth mother's adoption consent.

If the woman is not married, her child has no presumed father.

If the absent parent is male, another common way to terminate his parental rights is to show that he is not, legally speaking, the presumed father of the child.

Proving the absent parent is not the presumed father.

The presumed father can terminate his obligation to pay child support by disproving paternity, and either parent can seek a modification based on changed circumstances.

Therefore, rather than trying to prove that the father has abandoned the child, you simply must show that he does not meet the legal definition of presumed father.

If the paternity is contested, California law allows a mother to file papers in family court ordering the presumed father to take a paternity test.

Florida has statutes establishing who the presumed father of a child is in certain situations.

Under California law, the mother and the father (or the presumed father), «are equally entitled» to the custody of an unemancipated minor.

But I for one, and I presume Father Heisig as well, can associate no empirical or scientific meaning with any idea of such a «Divine Without.»

Can't beat butter and bacon to complement top - notch beef =) I presume your the father of your son and your son were happy campers yesterday =)

She brings this up to her parents, asking them their thoughts on getting married instead of going to Oxford, presuming her father would say absolutely not.

As a result, early child development research followed untested psychoanalytic theory in focusing exclusively on mothers and infants, presuming fathers to be quite peripheral and unnecessary to children's development and psychological adjustment.

This section includes information and resources regarding who can adopt and be adopted, consent to adoption, rights of presumed fathers, intercountry adoption, access to family information, and more.

Not exact matches

To those who have confidence in such natural orders, John the Baptist says: «Do not presume to say to yourselves, «We have Abraham as our father»; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.»

He presumes the burden is a very heavy one, indeed — I see the toll it takes on my father (it is hard to help from 2000 miles away).

One of them runs as follows: «Do not presume to say to yourselves, «We have Abraham for our father.»

In this critique, the church fathers have been regarded as men of a sexist time whose work presumed the inferiority of women (as well as woman's responsibility for the introduction of evil into the world).

It is possible that Arimathea (like the later Emmaus) is actually an imagined site, for it is not known from any other source.9 It is just possible that the name «Joseph» may have been used to personalize the unknown Jew, presumed to have been responsible for the ritual burial, because of the biblical tradition which told of the care with which Joseph, the patriarch, transported the body of his father all the way back to Machpelah for burial.10

Being a Christian is about acknowledging that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father, with the power of the Spirit — this is a Trinitarian theology that presumes the Incarnate glory of the Son.

Don't presume to speak for this man's father, Mr. Prothero... and be assured the Reverend IS about his father's business, which may sometimes include speaking difficult, politically incorrect truths that others may not enjoy hearing.

The feud between O'Neal and fellow superstar Kobe Bryant; the presumed lame - duck status of coach Phil Jackson, whose contract negotiations with team owner Jerry Buss, the father of his Significant Other, are on hold; the frustrations of Hall of Fame rentals Malone and Gary Payton — all have made for compelling subplots but not always compelling hoops.

In sperm donor cases for opposite - sex couples, Mississippi presumes the husband to be the legal father of the child, not the person who donated the genetic material.

In addition, some states presume that in the case of unmarried parents, the mother automatically has custody, while others expect single mothers to file for custody, even if the father is not involved.

If the mother of your child was married to another man when your child was conceived, then the state may presume that he is your child's father.

Another may presume custody for the father (if he is suitable) in the event a wife / mother abandons the husband and the children are over 7 years old.

You should be aware, as well, that many states either make no presumption of custody based on whether the father is on the birth certificate or presume joint custody even in cases where the parents were never married.

In some states, like Oklahoma, it is presumed that the mother has sole custody in cases where the parents were unmarried at the time of the child's birth and no father is on the birth certificate.

If she doesn't file for child custody, for states that presume two parents who sign a birth certificate have custody of the child, an unwed mother may be left with little recourse against a father.

Jeremy does not know my father so I can only presume that because of the much - publicised fact that my father was a Sinn Féin councillor, Jeremy felt that they would share a political affinity and was proposing to use that to ask my father to apply pressure on me.

This sequel to the popular Despicable Me film once again features Gru, a new father and retired villain, who has been commissioned by the Anti-Villain League to help Secret Agent Lucy Wilde investigate a stolen Arctic Laboratory and presumed dead villain, El Macho.

Himself a child of a broken home, Che hasn't seen his father, Brian, in over 20 years, and presumes him dead.

In this warm, coming - of - age comedy, shy bird - watching enthusiast David (Kodi Smit - McPhee, ParaNorman) is struggling to cope with his father's impending remarriage when he stumbles across a duck that had been presumed extinct.

The pair start tormenting the three residents — father, mother and boy - child — but as they say, in direct - to - camera shots, they merely commit their violent acts to entertain the audience, presuming that spectators are delighted by watching torture scenes on screen.

Similar to the general trajectory of the 2013 video game reboot, Vikander revealed that Tomb Raider will pick up with Lara as a girl stuck in a day job in London, who journeys into the unknown after an unlikely clue hints at the possible survival of her presumed - dead father:

Unfortunately she's also been dully conceived as a punky trust - fund rebel with unresolved daddy issues, something the film explores at great length by sending her on an origins - establishing mission to find out what really happened to her missing - presumed - dead father (Dominic West, reliably terrible).

She is a very rich young woman, heir to the fortune of her father, who disappeared seven years earlier and is presumed dead.

Her aristocratic father, Richard (Dominic West), has been missing and presumed dead for seven years, but Lara refuses to believe he's actually gone.

As the twins learn more and more about their home, their past, and their mother's character, they begin to suspect that their father, presumed dead, may be something less than deceased.

Even when Warner Bros. announced Cotillard had been cast as Miranda Tate, a Wayne Enterprises board member eager to help a grieving Bruce Wayne resume his father's philanthropic work, many fans presumed it was a ruse by director Christopher Nolan to cover the actress» real role — that of DC Comics character Talia al Ghul, leading her father's League of Shadows in the conclusion of the Batman trilogy.

Stuhlbarg opens up a man's soul — he gives us a father's loving delicacy about presuming too much, a conflicted middle - aged romantic's unvoiced regrets, and a professor's desire to teach a pupil.

After surviving perilous encounters with snakes, tarantulas and piranhas, Blu, Jewel and the chicks stumble upon Jewel's long - lost, presumed - dead family, ruled over by her authoritarian father, Eduardo (Andy Garcia).

Scott Turow shows us new sides of Kindle County, the world of greed and human failing he has made immortal in his previous novels, Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, and The Laws of Our Fathers.

Author Louis Bayard puts real - life French police detective Vidocq (the inspiration for Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean) at the center of the action as a doctor's son tries to find out whether the young man his father treated is, in fact, the lost and presumed dead Louis - Charles.