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Hospitals play a vital role in assisting parents with establishing paternity for their child. For a child born to unwed parents, establishing paternity provides that child with legal proof of parentage, including legal rights and eligibility for parental benefits. The paternity of a child must be established if a child is born to an unmarried mother or a mother who has not been married within the past 10 months.
Hospital Responsibilities
Provide parents with information on the voluntary acknowledgment of paternity process at the time of a child's birth, including:
Provide one copy of the completed AOP form to each parent.
Promptly complete the AOP form electronically at the hospital, and file the hard-copy AOP with the Department of Community Health (DCH).
Resources
Hospital Paternity Acknowledgment Guide - Detailed information about paternity establishment and the procedures for completing and sending AOPs to the DCH.
The Office of Child Support provides hospitals and other agencies with guidance, support and reliable information about paternity establishment issues. Email questions to DHS-OCS-PEP@michigan.gov.
Hospital PEP Updates - Provides hospitals with additional information and articles of interest related to paternity establishment.
Use this Order Form to order free publications, posters and the Power of Two video.
Hospital Paternity Data 2011, 2010 - Paternity Establishment Statistics by Birthing Hospital.
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