Cite as: 10 CNCA § 100.1

A child shall be presumed to be the offspring of the putative father if:

1. The father, in writing, signed in the presence of a competent witness acknowledges himself to be the father of the child;

2. The father and mother intermarried subsequent to the child's birth, and the father, after such marriage, acknowledged the child as his own or adopted him into his family;

3. The father publicly acknowledged such child as his own, receiving it as such, with the consent of his wife, if he is married, into his family and otherwise treating it as if it were a child born in wedlock; or

4. The father was judicially determined to be such in a paternity proceeding before a court of competent jurisdiction.

Historical Data

LA 11–05, eff. March 21, 2005.