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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="5-3A-06" title_number="5" title_name="Children" subtitle_number="3A" subtitle_name="Private Agency Guardianship and Adoption">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Unless a court excludes a man as the father of a child, a man is the father if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the man was married to the child’s mother at the time of the child’s conception;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the man was married to the child’s mother at the time of the child’s birth;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the man is named as the father on the child’s birth certificate and has not signed a denial of paternity;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the child’s mother has named the man as the child’s father and the man has not signed a denial of paternity;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>the man has been adjudicated to be the child’s father;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>the man has acknowledged himself, orally or in writing, to be the child’s father and the mother agrees; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>on the basis of genetic testing, the man is indicated to be the child’s biological father.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A petitioner under this subtitle shall give a court notice that a man who is not named in the petition and has not been excluded as a father claims paternity.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>After a request of a party or claimant and before ruling on a petition for guardianship or adoption under this subtitle, a court shall hold a hearing on the issue of paternity.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
