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    Default Is There a Time Limit for Unwed Father to Demand Test and Rights to Child

    My question involves paternity law for the State of: Man in NC....Mother and child in Alabama.

    My niece decided to put unknown father on birth certificate. Now 6 yrs. later, ex boyfriend has contacted her parents demanding rights to this child. Mom and child haven't had any contact with him in 5 yrs. Mom is now married, and her husband is the only father this child has known. There has been no father established for this child, and her husband wants to adopt him....would it be possible for husband to claim paternity for this child? Ex boyfriend has had drug problems, said today, to Mom's parents, that he has been in rehab, and wants to be a father.....

    Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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    Default Re: Is There a Time Limit for Unwed Father to Demand Test and Rights to Child

    Yes, the child's father still has time to establish paternity.

    Because paternity has never been established, in Alabama he has up until the child's 19th birthday and in NC up until the child's 18th birthday.

    Mom perhaps needs to think about helping the child deal with the truth that Mom's husband isn't actually her father.

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