HOW PARENT AND CHILD RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED.
Known as the Parentage Act
The act spans §§ 257–257 (51 sections).
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Morey v. Peppin (1985)
Most recently applied in In the MATTER OF the Application of J.M.M. O/B/O Minors for a Change of Name (February 2017)
1980 c 589 s 4; 1987 c 403 art 3 s 96; 1Sp1993 c 1 art 6 s 33
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 between a child and:
(a) the biological mother may be established by proof of her having given birth to the child, or under sections 257.51 to 257.74 or 257.75 ;
(b) the biological father may be established under sections 257.51 to 257.74 or 257.75 ; or
(c) an adoptive parent may be established by proof of adoption.
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.