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2012 Delaware Code
Title 13 - Domestic Relations
CHAPTER 5. DESERTION AND SUPPORT
Subchapter I. Duty to Support
§ 504. Duty to support woman with child conceived out of wedlock.


13 DE Code § 504 (2012 through 146th Gen Ass) What's This?

The duty to support a woman pregnant with child conceived out of wedlock rests first upon the person by whom she became pregnant. Such support may include her necessary prenatal and postnatal medical, hospital, and lying-in expenses incident to the pregnancy and to the birth of the child, and such other relief as to the court shall seem reasonable.

Code 1852, §§ 850-853, 1468, 1472; 26 Del. Laws, c. 137; 27 Del. Laws, c. 262, § 13; Code 1915, §§ 1463, 3033, 3061; 37 Del. Laws, c. 189, § 8; Code 1935, §§ 1634, 3526, 3548; 13 Del. C. 1953, § 501; 50 Del. Laws, c. 207, § 1; 59 Del. Laws, c. 567, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;

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