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If you get married after the child is born, it can establish paternity retroactively. This is not an automatic process, and it is in you and your child's best interest to work with a family lawyer to establish paternity in this way. Both parents can sign an Affidavit of Paternity, which establishes paternity.
After paternity is legally established, barring additional legal action on the part of the father, the mother still retains sole legal and physical custody of a child. A father who wishes to gain child custody must ask the court for an order. Paternity isn't a guarantee that child custody will be granted.
If a mother refuses to determine paternity for legal reasons, a court can order a paternity test be carried out. A mother has to give her consent for children to have a DNA test but the court can override any refusal if it considers it's in the child's best interest for the sample to be taken.
Establishing paternity ensures a father's legal rights and various rights and privileges for their children, such as rights to inheritance, father's medical and life insurance benefits, and Social Security and veterans' benefits, plus access to paternal family health history.
If you would like to formally establish paternity, you should begin by asking the father of your child to voluntarily acknowledge paternity.The birth father can voluntarily acknowledge paternity in two ways: He can be present at the birth of your child and sign a Declaration of Paternity.
Get on the birth certificate. Once your child is born, the easiest way to establish paternity is by getting your name on the birth certificate. Get an order through an administrative agency. Get a court order.
Birth certificate. If a birth certificate declares the father and he signs it, this is a legally binding qualification of paternity. DNA test. Court order.