CGS § 46b-567. (Formerly Sec. 46b-169). Compelling disclosure of name of alleged genetic parent. Institution of action.

History: P.A. 74-183 substituted “decree of divorce or dissolution” for “divorce decree” and court of common pleas for circuit court, effective December 31, 1974; P.A. 75-406 added reference to “geographical area” in Subsec. (a); P.A. 75-420 replaced welfare commissioner with commissioner of social services; P.A. 76-436 replaced court of common pleas with superior court, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of social services with commissioner of human resources, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-560 added reference to commissioner of income maintenance in Subsec. (a); Sec. 52-440b transferred to Sec. 46b-169 in 1979; P.A. 88-364 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting “assigned to a geographical area” after “superior court”; P.A. 93-262 replaced reference to commissioners of human resources and income maintenance with commissioner of social services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 04-76 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting provision that required the mother of a child to disclose the name of the putative father of such child “to a selectman of a town in which such child resides, if such child is a recipient of general assistance”; P.A. 07-217 made technical changes in Subsec. (b), effective July 12, 2007; P.A. 21-15 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “mother” with “birth parent”, replacing provision re children born out of wedlock or found not to be issue of the marriage with “child born to parents unmarried to each other”, replacing “putative father” with “alleged genetic parent” and adding provision re application of criteria adopted by Commissioner of Social Services to establish good cause or exceptions for refusing to cooperate with provisions of this subsection and amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “woman” with “birth parent” and replacing “prosecute a paternity action” with “proceed with a parentage action”, effective January 1, 2022; Sec. 46b-169 transferred to Sec. 46b-567 in 2023.