Bill > H4965

This bill proposes to amend existing Massachusetts law on parentage to promote children's security. Key provisions include: - Replacing the term "paternity" with "parentage" throughout the law to be more inclusive. - Updating terminology to refer to the "person who gave birth" rather than just the "mother." - Establishing presumptions of parentage and procedures for overcoming those presumptions. - Allowing for a child to have more than two legal parents in certain circumstances. - Providing detailed requirements and procedures for gestational and genetic surrogacy agreements. - Authorizing the probate and family court to adjudicate parentage under this new law. - The bill would take effect one year after enactment.