H992 - Timeshare Foreclosure/Paternity Matters. (SL 2025-75)

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Session Year 2025

Overview: Sections 3 and 4 of S.L. 2025-75 (House Bill 992) will modify the laws governing the right of a child born out of wedlock to take by intestate succession from a person who has acknowledged himself in a written instrument to be the child's father.  These sections will remove provisions requiring the instrument acknowledging paternity to be filed with the clerk of superior court of the county where either he or the child resides.

These sections become effective December 1, 2025, and apply to the estates of decedents dying on or after that date.