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The Putative Father Registry is a confidential registry (record) of fathers of children born out of wedlock. The registry maintains names and addresses of fathers who (1) filed a notice to claim paternity, (2) acknowledged paternity of the child, or (3) have been determined by a court to be the father of the child.
Paternity establishment refers to the process of determining the legal father of a child. When a child is born to unmarried parents, the child has no legal father. In New York, unmarried parents can establish paternity in two ways:
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