HB426 Summary

• Amends Section 26-17-204 of the Alabama Code to make the paternity presumption of a mother's husband rebuttable if the mother misrepresents her marital status to an alleged biological father prior to conception.

• Allows an alleged biological father who held the child out as his own during the mother's pregnancy to petition to establish paternity despite the husband's presumption.

• Maintains that presumptions of paternity may only be rebutted through adjudication under Article 6, with conflicting presumptions resolved by weightier considerations of public policy and logic.

• Court decree establishing paternity by another man rebuts the husband's presumption of paternity.

• Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and gubernatorial approval.