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TITLE 9 - Civil Code-Ancillaries
RS 9:405 - Legal effect of acknowledgment
LA Rev Stat § 9:405 (2015) What's This?
§405. Legal effect of acknowledgment
In child support, custody, and visitation cases, the acknowledgment of paternity by authentic act is deemed to be a legal finding of paternity and is sufficient to establish an obligation to support the child and to establish visitation without the necessity of obtaining a judgment of paternity.
Acts 2006, No. 344, §4, eff. June 13, 2006.
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