File Code: Family Law
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Gladden and Montague
- Entitled:
-
Family Law - Paternity Proceedings - Legitimacy Presumption
Establishing that a laboratory report of a blood or genetic test is
sufficient to rebut the legitimacy presumption in paternity
proceedings if definite exclusion is established or the testing is
sufficiently extensive to exclude 97.3% of alleged fathers who are not
biological fathers, and the statistical probability of the alleged
father's paternity is at least 97.3%.
House Action
- 2/11
- First Reading Judiciary
- 2/16
- Hearing 3/15 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/10
- Hearing cancelled
- 3/13
- Withdrawn
Senate Action
- No Action
- Sponsored by:
- Delegate Lisa A. Gladden, District 41
- Delegate Kenneth C. Montague, Jr., District 43
- Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- CHEMICAL TESTS
- EVIDENCE
- FAMILY LAW -see also- ADOPTION; ANNULMENT; DIVORCE; etc
- GENETICS
- LABORATORIES
- PATERNITY
- REPORTS
- Bill affects the following Statutes:
- Family Law
- (
5-1027 ,
5-1029
)
- Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF),
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note:
Not available at this time
- Amendments:
None offered
