Determining biological fatherhood and the rights and obligations of fathers.
Legal definition of paternity: This includes the legal definition of paternity and how it is established under the law.
Rights and responsibilities of a father: This topic covers the rights and responsibilities of a father when it comes to child custody, visitation, child support, and other legal obligations.
DNA and paternity testing: This involves understanding how DNA testing can establish paternity and how the results can be used in legal proceedings.
Unmarried parents and paternity: This topic covers how paternity is established for unmarried parents and how it affects custody, visitation, and child support.
Paternity fraud: This topic involves understanding the potential for paternity fraud and how to address it legally.
Paternity leave: This covers the rights of fathers to take paternity leave from work to care for a newborn child.
Adoption and paternity: This involves understanding how paternity affects the adoption process and the rights of a father in an adoption situation.
Parental alienation: This topic involves understanding the potential for parental alienation in paternity cases and how to address it legally.
Surrogacy and paternity: This covers how paternity is established in a surrogacy arrangement and the legal rights and responsibilities of the father.
International paternity cases: This covers how paternity is established in international cases and how the law differs from country to country.
Parenting plan: This topic involves understanding how paternity affects the parenting plan and how to determine the physical and legal custody of a child.
Child custody: This topic covers the legal rights and responsibilities of a father when it comes to child custody, especially how to determine the best interest of the child.
Child support: This covers the legal obligations of a father to support his child, including how child support payments are calculated.
Visitation rights: This topic covers the legal rights of a father to visit his child, including how visitation schedules are determined.
Termination of parental rights: This topic involves understanding how parental rights can be terminated and the legal ramifications of such an action.
Mediation: This includes the use of mediation as an alternative to going to court, especially in resolving minor disagreements between parents.
Collaborative law: This involves a collaborative approach to resolving paternity disputes that can make resolutions quicker and more cost-efficient.
Guardianship: This covers the appointment of a guardian for a minor child, especially when the father is considered unfit to care for the child.
Domestic violence: This topic covers the legal consequences of domestic violence in paternity cases, including restraining orders and criminal charges.
Grandparent rights: This covers the legal rights of grandparents in paternity cases and how they can seek visitation or custody of a child.
Presumed Paternity: When a man is presumed to be the father of a child because he is married to the child's mother.
Biological Paternity: When a man is the biological father of a child.
Acknowledged Paternity: When a man acknowledges himself as the father of a child, usually by signing a birth certificate.
Adjudicated Paternity: When a court legally declares that a man is the father of a child.
Equitable Paternity: When a man is considered to be the father of a child because of his relationship with the child, even though he may not be the biological father.
Genetic Paternity: When paternity is determined through DNA testing.
De Facto Paternity: When a man has acted as the father of a child for an extended period of time and is considered to be the child's father by society.
Paternity by Estoppel: When a man is prevented from denying that he is the father of a child because of his actions or words.
Putative Paternity: When a man is thought to be the father of a child, but paternity has not been legally established.
Functional Paternity: When a man has taken on the role of a father in a child's life, but may not be the biological father or have legal paternity rights.