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Ark. Code Ann. § 9-10-121

Termination of certain parental rights for putative fathers convicted of rape

Acts 2013, No. 210, § 1.

(1) All rights of a putative father to custody, visitation, or other contact with a child conceived as a result of a rape shall be terminated immediately upon conviction of the rape in which the child was conceived under § 5-14-103.

(2) The biological mother of a child conceived as a result of rape may petition the court under § 9-10-104 to reinstate the parental rights of a putative father terminated under subsection (a) of this section.

(3) A putative father to a child conceived as a result of rape shall pay child support as provided under § 9-10-109.

(4) A child conceived as a result of rape is entitled to: Child support under § 9-10-109; and

(5) Inheritance under the Arkansas Inheritance Code of 1969, § 28-9-201 et seq.

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.