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Section 3705.091 | Acknowledgment of paternity affidavits.

Ohio Revised Code
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Title 37 Health-Safety-Morals
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Chapter 3705 Vital Statistics
 
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Effective:
July 1, 2000
Legislation:
House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly
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(A) If the natural mother and alleged father of a child sign an acknowledgment of paternity affidavit prepared pursuant to section 5101.324 of the Revised Code with respect to that child at the office of the local registrar, the local registrar shall provide a notary public to notarize the acknowledgment. The local registrar shall send a signed and notarized acknowledgment of paternity to the division of child support in the department of job and family services pursuant to section 5101.314 of the Revised Code. The local registrar shall send the acknowledgment no later than ten days after it has been signed and notarized. If the local registrar knows a man is presumed under section 3111.03 of the Revised Code to be the father of the child, the local registrar shall not notarize or send an acknowledgment with respect to the child pursuant to this section.

(B) The local registrar of vital statistics shall provide an acknowledgment of paternity affidavit described in division (A) of this section to any person that requests it.

(C) The department of health shall store all acknowledgments of paternity affidavits it receives pursuant to section 5101.314 of the Revised Code. The department of health shall send to the division any acknowledgment the department is storing that the division requests. The department of health shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to govern the method of storage of the acknowledgments and to implement this section.

(D) The department of health and the department of job and family services shall enter into an agreement regarding expenses incurred by the department of health in comparing acknowledgment of paternity affidavits to birth records and storage of acknowledgment of paternity affidavits.

Last updated October 5, 2023 at 3:15 PM

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