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Paternity is legal fatherhood. Once it is established, it brings with it the rights, privileges, duties, and obligations of being a parent. If you and the other the parent weren’t married when your child was born, paternity may need to be established before or during a child support, custody, or visitation case.1
1 See 8 CMC §§ 1701; 1706
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