Also known as: Uniform Parentage Act · UPA
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Uniform laws that supply rules and presumptions for establishing legal parentage of a child. The acts address parentage in cases of assisted reproduction and surrogacy by directing courts to specific provisions for gestational and genetic carriers.
Uriel Urban and Uliana Ustinova enter a gestational surrogacy contract with a carrier who conceives through assisted reproduction. After birth the carrier relinquishes the child. A court applies the Uniform Parentage Acts to fix parentage in the intended parents rather than the carrier.
Umar Usmani fathers a child but fails to register with the state paternity registry. The mother places the child for adoption. A court applies the Uniform Parentage Acts to decide whether Umar receives notice and an opportunity to establish parentage before the adoption proceeds.
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The act directs courts to its Article 8 provisions when a child is conceived by assisted reproduction and born to a gestational or genetic surrogate. Those provisions establish the intended parents as the legal parents once statutory requirements are met.
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No. An adjudication that an individual is a de facto parent leaves any prior parent-child relationship between the child and another individual unchanged.
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The act may be cited as the Uniform Parentage Act (2017).
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…attributes of their respective bodies of family law. For example, as of the end of 1982, only eight States had adopted the Uniform Parentage Act. 9A U. L. A. 171 (Supp. 1983). [^maj-12]: See Hafen, Marriage, Kinship, and Sexual Privacy, 81 Mich. L. Rev. 463, 479-481 (1983). [^maj-13]: See Trimble v. Gordon , 430 U. S. 762, 769…