HB 7107--Child support enforcement.(Children & Family Law)(Brief article)

In 2006, the Florida Supreme Court found that a legal father, i.e., a man married to a child's mother at the time of birth, is an indispensable party in an action to determine paternity and to place support obligations on another man. In some cases, the whereabouts of the legal father are unknown, and he cannot be served because current law does not permit service of process by publication in paternity actions. The bill permits service of process by publication on a legal father in a paternity action in which another man is alleged to be the biological father of the child after a