ARTICLE;

WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor                   Ch. 657

(I)  THE ADMINISTRATION UNDER § 13-616.1 OF THIS

(II)  ANOTHER STATE; OR

(III)  THE DISTRICT OF COLOMBIA.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1988.

Approved May 27, 1988.

CHAPTER 657

(House Bill 485)

AN ACT concerning

Paternity Proceedings - Burden of Proof and Presumptions

FOR the purpose of broadening the rebuttal to the presumption
that a child is the legitimate child of the man to whom the
child's mother was married; providing that if the
presumption is rebutted by certain testimony, it is not
necessary to establish nonaccess of the husband to rebut the
presumption; providing that if the presumption is rebutted
by certain testimony, a mother and her husband are competent
to testify as to the nonaccess of the husband at the time of
conception; and generally relating to rebuttable
presumptions in paternity proceedings.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Family Law

Section 5-1028

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Volume and 1987 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Family Law

5-1028.

(a) At the trial, the burden is on the complainant to
establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the alleged
father is the father of the child.

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