26.26.370 - Acknowledgment of paternity -- Application of RCW 26.26.300 through 26.26.375--Adjudication. - Washington Statutes

Acknowledgment of paternity — Application of RCW 26.26.300 through 26.26.375 — Adjudication.

(1) RCW 26.26.300 through 26.26.375 apply to all acknowledgments of paternity executed on or after July 1, 1997.

     (2) A man who executed an acknowledgment of paternity before July 1, 1997, is rebuttably identified as the father of the child named therein. Any dispute of the parentage, custody, visitation, or support of the child named therein shall be determined in a proceeding to adjudicate the child's parentage commenced under RCW 26.26.500 through 26.26.630.

[2002 c 302 § 315.]