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2006 Massachusetts Code - CHAPTER 209C. — CHILDREN BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK.
- Section 1. Declaration of purpose; definition; responsibility for supportof children born out of wedlock.
- Section 2. Paternity; acknowledgment or adjudication; statistical informationof parties; transmission to registrar.
- Section 3. Paternity and support actions; jurisdiction; enforcement of prior ordersor judgments; juvenile court commitment proceedings; parents convicted of first degree murder.
- Section 4. Venue; service.
- Section 5. Persons entitled to maintain actions or execute voluntaryacknowledgmentof parentage; parties.
- Section 6. Presumption of paternity; mandatory joinder.
- Section 7. Representation in paternity actions; appointment of counsel;burden ofproof.
- Section 8. Judgment of paternity; age of father or mother; notice.
- Section 9. Judgment or order for support; health insurance; financialstatement;determination of amount; notice.
- Section 10. Award of custody; criteria.
- Section 11. Voluntary acknowledgment of paternity; force and effect;rescission; parental agreementsregardingcustody — support and visitation.
- Section 12. Trial; exclusion of public.
- Section 13. Inspection of paternity documents; segregation of records.
- Section 14. Complaints brought prior to birth.
- Section 15. Temporary orders; enforcement; information required to be given to petitioner; domestic violence record search.
- Section 16. Competency to testify; refusal to testify; costs of tests;admissibility of evidence.
- Section 17. Genetic marker tests; affidavit; refusal to submit to test;costs.
- Section 18. Judgments or orders of support; enforcement.
- Section 19. Judgment or temporary order of support; enforcement.
- Section 20. Modification of judgments; jurisdiction.
- Section 21. Action to determine mother and child relationship.
- Section 22. Proceedings barred under this chapter.
- Section 23. Intermarriage of parents; jurisdiction.
- Section 24. Forms.
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