SB 36

UNOFFICIAL COPY  26 RS BR 1558
1AN ACT relating to parentage fraud.
2 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:
3SECTION 1. A NEW SECTION OF KRS CHAPTER 530 IS CREATED TO
4 READ AS FOLLOWS:
5 (1)    A person is guilty of parentage fraud when he or she:
6(a)     Seeks to legally establish another person as the biological parent of a child
7in the person's custody with the intent to:
81.       Deprive the other person of property; or
92.       Prevent the child's actual biological parent from exercising parental
10rights to the child; and
11(b)     Knows or reasonably should know that the other person is not the child's
12biological parent.
13 (2)    This section shall not apply when the:
14(a)     Child involved was conceived as the result of any degree of rape as
15described in KRS Chapter 510 or incest as described in KRS 530.020;
16(b)     Child involved has been or is the process of being adopted; or
17(c)     Victim of the offense was the defendant's spouse at the time of the offense.
18 (3)    Parentage fraud is a Class B misdemeanor.
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