As used in sections 257.51 to 257.74 , "parent and child relationship" means the legal relationship existing between a child and the child's biological or adoptive parents incident to which the law confers or imposes rights, privileges, duties, and obligations. It includes the mother and child relationship and the father and child relationship.
Minn. Stat. § 257.52
PARENT AND CHILD RELATIONSHIP DEFINED.
Known as the Parentage Act
The act spans §§ 257.01 to 257.75 (51 sections).
Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case R.B. v. C.S. (1995)
Most recently applied in A. S. v. K. C.-W. (In re C. F. N.) (December 2018)
1980 c 589 s 2; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 403 art 3 s 96
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Minnesota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.