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Montana Code Annotated (1999)
Table of Contents
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TITLE 42. ADOPTION
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CHAPTER 2. ADOPTION OF CHILD
Part 2. Putative Father Registration
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42-2-201
- Definitions
42-2-202
- Putative father registry
42-2-203
- Purpose of registry
42-2-204
- Presumed knowledge of pregnancy -- duty to register to be afforded notice -- putative and presumed fathers
42-2-205
- Registration
42-2-206
- When putative father to register -- actual knowledge of pregnancy not required
42-2-207
- How registration submitted
42-2-208
- Burden of putative father to preserve rights upon receipt of notice
42-2-209
- Presumption created -- admissibility in other proceedings
42-2-214
- Duties of department
42-2-215
- Information maintained in registry
42-2-216
- Storage of data
42-2-217
- Registry search -- request -- affidavit
42-2-218
- Duties of department upon receipt of request
42-2-222
- Failure of agency to post notice
42-2-223
- Revocation of registration
42-2-224
- Certified copy of registration form to be furnished upon request
42-2-225
- Information confidential
42-2-226
- Registration of false information -- criminal and civil penalties
42-2-230
- Responsibility of each party to protect interests -- putative fathers -- fraud no defense