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RS 9:397.3
This section sets rules for filing, notice, challenge, and court treatment of test reports in paternity cases.
- Paternity testing
- Test evidence
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RS 9:398
This section says how tests and expert compensation work in criminal cases, and gives the court limited authority to direct an acquittal.
- Court procedure
- Expert compensation
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RS 9:398.1
In paternity cases, the court must award attorney's fees and costs to the prevailing party when judgment is for the party seeking to establish paternity, unless good cause is shown.
- Litigation costs
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RS 9:398.2
Certain fathers may ask a court for blood or tissue testing before filing a filiation or disavowal action.
- Blood or tissue testing
- Filiation
- Paternity
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RS 9:399
A court must order interim child support in a paternity proceeding when there is clear and convincing evidence of paternity and a party moves for it.
- Child support
- Paternity proceedings
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RS 9:399.1
This section lets certain people ask a court to set aside or vacate a paternity judgment, but only within a two-year filing period and under stated procedures.
- Child support
- Court procedure
- Parentage
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RS 9:399.2
A biological mother may sue the biological father to recover half of documented out-of-pocket pregnancy-related medical expenses, if acknowledgment or paternity proof requirements are met.
- Paternity
- Pregnancy-related expenses
- Reimbursement
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RS 9:400
The public health office must maintain a putative father registry, keep listed names and addresses, and control disclosure of that information.
- Address reporting
- Paternity records
- Registry maintenance
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RS 9:400.1
Section 9:400.1 was repealed.
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RS 9:401
In a disavowal action, the person presumed to be the father must be joined as a party and served with process.
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RS 9:402
A judgment of disavowal ends certain custody, visitation, and child-support orders, but it does not undo child-support payments or arrearages already paid, due, or owed before the disavowal action was filed.
- Child support
- Custody
- Visitation
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RS 9:402.1
A three-party acknowledgment ends the husband’s or former husband’s child support obligation and cancels any court order enforcing it.
- Child support
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RS 9:403
This section says the mother is the proper plaintiff in the contestation action, the hearing may be closed to the public, and certain child-custody, visitation, support, and appeal rules apply.
- Appeals
- Child custody
- Child support
- Visitation
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RS 9:404
Civil Code Article 198’s peremptive periods apply to the Department of Children and Family Services when it provides services under 42 U.S.C. 666.
- Family services
- Time limits
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RS 9:405
An acknowledgment of paternity by authentic act counts as a legal finding of paternity and can establish child support and visitation without a paternity judgment.
- Child support
- Custody
- Visitation
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RS 9:406
A person who signed an acknowledgment may revoke it within 60 days, or later seek annulment only on specific proof; the registrar, court, and clerk have related filing, notice, testing, explanation, and record-amendment duties.
- Annulment procedure
- Birth record amendments
- Paternity acknowledgment
- Revocation procedure
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RS 9:407
A court with jurisdiction may adopt a local rule allowing affidavit proof in uncontested paternity proceedings.
- Affidavit
- Court procedure
- Paternity
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RS 9:408
In a filiation or paternity proceeding, the child's mother, the presumed father under Civil Code Article 185, and the biological father if known must be joined, unless an exception applies.
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RS 9:409
Before a filiation judgment that orders a birth-certificate amendment, the mover must send the pleadings and proposed judgment to the state registrar.
- Birth certificate amendment
- Court notice procedure
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RS 9:410
A filiation action under Civil Code Article 197 is treated as a civil action in an ordinary proceeding.
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