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2019 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.
Universal Citation: 13 DE Code § 504 (2019)
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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