Establishing Parent and Child Relationship
Known as the Uniform Parentage Act
The act spans §§ 7600–7730 (64 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Rajeshree Roy v. William Barr (2020)
Most recently applied in Rajeshree Roy v. William Barr (June 2020)
Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 510, Sec. 2
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.
The parent and child relationship may be established as follows:
(a) Between a child and the natural parent, it may be established by proof of having given birth to the child, or under this part.
(b) Between a child and an adoptive parent, it may be established by proof of adoption.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.