MS SB2329

Amends Mississippi Code Section 93-9-10 to clarify when a legal father can disestablish paternity and terminate child support obligations when not the biological father.

Requires petition to include newly discovered evidence of paternity, scientific test results excluding biological paternity (conducted within one year), or affidavit stating inability to access child for testing, with court authority to order testing.

Court must find newly discovered evidence, proper scientific testing, that father did not adopt child, child was not conceived by artificial insemination during marriage, and father did not prevent biological father from asserting parental rights.

Prohibits setting aside paternity if legal father married/cohabited with mother and assumed parental duty, consented to birth certificate listing, signed court-approved paternity agreement, signed support agreement, declined genetic testing, or failed to appear for ordered genetic testing—except upon showing of good cause.

Limits relief to prospective and past-due child support, parental rights termination, custody, and visitation; does not recover child support paid before petition filing; requires petitioner to pay testing fees and reimburse court costs and attorney fees if petition denied.