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Term Definition
Parentage Acts
- laws in most states that permit a child, up to five years after attains a majority, to sue his or her parent or estates to establish a blood relationship.
Application in Divorce
These laws enable a child to share in the
putative
parent and to
claim
Social Security benefits.