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WPF PS 13.0100 - Petition for Challenge to Acknowledgment of Paternity - Washington

WPF PS 13.0100 - Petition for Challenge to Acknowledgment of Paternity - Washington-2025

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The document is a legal petition filed in the Superior Court of Washington to challenge an existing paternity acknowledgment or denial regarding a child. The petitioner seeks to invalidate the paternity acknowledgment or denial they signed, request a determination of the child's legal parents, and potentially order genetic testing. It outlines necessary information about the parties involved, jurisdiction, reasons for the challenge, and additional requests related to child support and protection orders.

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What rights does a father have if paternity is established?

Paternity is a prerequisite to these parental rights. Once paternity is established, a father may pursue child custody and visitation rights. Many states offer simultaneous filing for paternity recognition and visitation and custody rights.

What does establish paternity mean?

Paternity is fatherhood. Establishing paternity simply means to make the biological father the legal father.

How do you establish paternity in the US?

A paternity test is simple - the parents and child(ren) have their cheeks swabbed either in court, at a local clinic, or at a local Child Support office. DNA tests can determine the biological father with 99% accuracy.

What is the presumption of paternity in Washington state?

* Effective January 1, 2019, the law presumes you are a childs parent if, for the first four years of the childs life, you lived in the same home and openly held the child out as your own (RCW 26.26A. 115(b)).

What does it mean to determine paternity?

Paternity testing attempts to establish the identity of a persons genetic parent, also called their biological father. This testing works by comparing the genetic material, called DNA, of a child to an individual to see if that individual is one of the childs genetic parents.

Why do people establish paternity?

Establishing paternity is a necessary first step for the father to request a court order regarding custody and/or parenting time (visitation) or the legal right to have a say in certain decisions about the child.