Sec. 160.302. EXECUTION OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF PATERNITY. (a) An acknowledgment of paternity must: (1) be in a record; (2) be signed, or otherwise authenticated, under penalty of perjury by the mother and the man seeking to establish paternity; (3) state that the child whose paternity is being acknowledged: (A) does not have a presumed father or has a presumed father whose full name is stated; and (B) does not have another acknowledged or adjudicated father; (4) state whether there has been genetic testing and, if so, that the acknowledging man's claim of paternity is consistent with the results of the testing; and (5) state that the signatories understand that the acknowledgment is the equivalent of a judicial adjudication of the paternity of the child and that a challenge to the acknowledgment is permitted only under limited circumstances. (b) An acknowledgment of paternity is void if it: (1) states that another man is a presumed father of the child, unless a denial of paternity signed or otherwise authenticated by the presumed father is filed with the vital statistics unit; (2) states that another man is an acknowledged or adjudicated father of the child; or (3) falsely denies the existence of a presumed, acknowledged, or adjudicated father of the child. (c) A presumed father may sign or otherwise authenticate an acknowledgment of paternity. (d) An acknowledgment of paternity constitutes an affidavit under Section 666(a)(5)(C), Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Section 666(a)(5)(C)).
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