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If a notice of intent to claim paternity and obtain custody is not timely filed with the biological father registry pursuant to section 43-104.02, the mother of a child born out of wedlock or an agent specifically designated in writing by the mother may request, and the Department of Health and Human Services Finance and Support shall supply, a certificate that no notice of intent to claim paternity and obtain custody has been filed with the biological father registry and the filing of such certificate pursuant to section 43-102 shall eliminate the need or necessity of a consent or relinquishment for adoption by the natural father of such child.

Laws 1975, LB 224, § 5

Laws 1995, LB 712, § 24

Laws 1996, LB 1044, § 108

Laws 1999, LB 594, § 13

Five-day filing requirement for paternity held constitutional as applied, because such requirement did not violate right of equal protection or procedural due process. Friehe v. Schaad, 249 Neb. 825, 545 N.W.2d 740 (1996).