Suit to determine paternity of child born outside of marriage
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case State Office of Child Support Enforcement v. Willis (2001)
Most recently applied in 2021 Ark. App. 492 - Shawna Lynn Powers v. Michael Martin (December 2021)
Acts 1981, No. 664, §§ 1, 2; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 34-716, 34-717; Acts 1989, No. 725, § 4; 1995, No. 1184, § 1; 2009, No. 1312, § 1.
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.
Petitions for paternity establishment may be filed by:
(1) A biological mother;
(2) A putative father;
(3) A person for whom paternity is not presumed or established by court order, including a parent or grandparent of a deceased putative father; or
(4) The Office of Child Support Enforcement of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration.
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.