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2011 Vermont Code
Title 15B Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (1996)
Chapter 7 DETERMINATION OF PARENTAGE
§ 701 Proceeding to determine parentage


15B VT Stats § 701. (2011 through Adj Sess) What's This?

§ 701. Proceeding to determine parentage

(a) A tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating or responding tribunal in a proceeding brought under this title or a law or procedure substantially similar to this title, the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, or the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act to determine that the petitioner is a parent of a particular child or to determine that a respondent is a parent of that child.

(b) In a proceeding to determine parentage, a responding tribunal of this state shall apply the procedural and substantive law of this state, and the rules of this state on choice of law. (Added 1997, No. 11, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.)

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