17 states ( Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Washington, West Virginia ), as well as American Samoa, District of Columbia, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, do not have putative father registries.
32.
In the British colonies, and in the states of the United States ( with the exception of California, Idaho, Missouri, Oregon, Texas and Utah ), there is some procedure ( usually termed " filiation " ) akin to that described above, by means of which a mother can obtain a contribution to the support of her illegitimate child from the putative father.
33.
In the case of a father not married to a child's mother, a man may accept the paternity of the child in what is called a " voluntary acknowledgment of paternity ", the mother or legal authorities can file a petition for a determination of paternity against a putative father, or paternity can be determined by the courts through estoppel over time.
34.
Its purpose was to punish a bastard child's mother and putative father, and to relieve the parish from the cost of supporting mother and child . " By an act of 1576 ( 18 Elizabeth C . 3 ), it was ordered that bastards should be supported by their putative fathers, though bastardy orders in the quarter sessions date from before this date.
35.
Its purpose was to punish a bastard child's mother and putative father, and to relieve the parish from the cost of supporting mother and child . " By an act of 1576 ( 18 Elizabeth C . 3 ), it was ordered that bastards should be supported by their putative fathers, though bastardy orders in the quarter sessions date from before this date.
36.
On the death of her putative father in 1821 she received a letter, written by him shortly before his death, in which he confessed that she was not his daughter, adding " Heaven has repaired my fault, since you are in a better position than your real father, though he was of almost similar rank " ( i . e . a French nobleman ).
