Here is the language that I sent to me State Rep concerning the latest putative father bill that was introduced.
Honorable State Representative Callton,
Recently HB 4067 has been introduced and assigned to the Families, Children and Seniors committee. The bill is a start but does not go far enough to protect the rights of children and putative fathers or unknowing fathers to have a parent-child relationship. Please modify the bill by inserting language that does not require both parents to agree to the acknowledgement of a relationship so as not to give veto rights to either parent. Also please insert language which would not limit the amount of time a father has to file an action but instead gives him 1 year from when he discovered the possibility that he may have fathered a child. Finally there should not be any language in the bill that blocks actions when a mother is married to another man and there should be language that ends child support when a man is discovered to not be the father.
Sincerely,
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