Child Support Enforcement - Sarpy County Nebraska
Child Support Enforcement - Sarpy County Nebraska
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(4) All judgments under this section declaring the alleged father to be the father of the child<br />
shall include the father’s social security number. The social security number of the declared<br />
father of the child shall be furnished to the clerk of the district court in a document<br />
accompanying the judgment.<br />
Source: Laws 2006, LB 1113, § 41.<br />
§43-1414. Genetic testing; procedure; confidentiality; violation; penalty.<br />
It’s a floor cleaner…and a dessert topping. It contains civil AND criminal sanctions!<br />
(1) In any proceeding to establish paternity, the court may, on its own motion, or shall, on a<br />
timely request of a party, after notice and hearing, require the child, the mother, and the alleged<br />
father to submit to genetic testing to be performed on blood or any other appropriate genetic<br />
testing material. Failure to comply with such requirement for genetic testing shall constitute<br />
contempt and may be dealt with in the same manner as other contempts.<br />
…<br />
(8) Any person convicted of violating this section shall be guilty of a Class IV misdemeanor for<br />
the first offense and a Class III misdemeanor for the second or subsequent offense.<br />
Source: Laws 1984, LB 845, § 1; ; Laws 1994, LB 1224, § 61; ; Laws 1997, LB 752, § 103; ; Laws<br />
2001, LB 432, § 9; ; Laws 2007, LB296, § 129.; Operative date July 1, 2007<br />
§43-1415 Results of genetic tests; admissible evidence; rebuttable presumption.<br />
(1) The results of the tests, including the statistical probability of paternity, shall be admissible<br />
evidence and, except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, shall be weighed along with<br />
other evidence of paternity.<br />
(2) When the results of tests, whether or not such tests were ordered pursuant to section 43-<br />
1414, show a probability of paternity of ninety-nine percent or more, there shall exist a<br />
rebuttable presumption of paternity.<br />
(3) Such evidence may be introduced by verified written report without the need for foundation<br />
testimony or other proof of authenticity or accuracy unless there is a timely written request for<br />
personal testimony of the expert at least thirty days prior to trial.<br />
Source: Laws 1994, LB 1224, § 62.<br />
§ 43-1417 Additional genetic testing; when.<br />
If the result of genetic testing or the expert’s analysis of inherited characteristics is disputed,<br />
the court, upon reasonable request of a party, shall order that additional testing be done by the<br />
same laboratory or an independent laboratory at the expense of the party requesting additional<br />
testing.<br />
Source: Laws 1984, LB 845, § 4<br />
Distinguish these paternity statutes, which are based upon equity, with inheritance statutes,<br />
such as…<br />
§ 30-2309 For purposes of intestate succession…a person born out of wedlock is a child of the<br />
mother. That person is also a child of the father, if: .... the paternity is established by an<br />
adjudication before the death of the father or is established thereafter by strict, clear and<br />
convincing proof.<br />
The burden of proof is different in inheritance law, but in effect paternity can be proven after the<br />
death of the father under inheritance statutes. This does not mean you can successfully file a<br />
paternity action against a deceased putative father. You may not! See Carlson v. Bartels,<br />
below.<br />
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