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Ark. Code Ann. § 20-18-701

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Known as the Vital Statistics Act

The act spans §§ 20–20 (37 sections).

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case King v. Lybrand (1997)

Most recently applied in 975 So. 2d 940 - Ex Parte DB (June 2007)

Acts 1989, No. 496, § 1; 2019, No. 315, § 1979; 2019, No. 389, § 34.

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

As used in this subchapter:

(1) “Child” means a person under eighteen (18) years of age for whom paternity has not been established;

(2) “Court” means a court in this state or another state or territory of the United States of competent subject matter jurisdiction;

(3) [Repealed.]

(4) “Father” means the biological male parent of a child;

(5) “Putative father” means any man not legally presumed or adjudicated to be the biological father of a child but who claims or is alleged to be the father of the child;

(6) “Registrant” means a person who has registered pursuant to this subchapter and who is claiming to be the father of a child;

(7) “Registry” means the Putative Father Registry; and

(8) “Rules” means rules promulgated by the Department of Health for the purpose of implementing this subchapter.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.