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This bill amends existing Virginia law to clarify and expand the ways a parent-child relationship can be legally established, particularly for child support enforcement and inheritance purposes. It adds administrative methods used by the Department of Social Services (DSS) to establish paternity to the existing legal frameworks for domestic relations cases and for determining rights related to property documents like deeds and wills. Specifically, it incorporates proceedings under § 63.2-1913 and voluntary acknowledgments of paternity signed under oath pursuant to § 63.2-1914 as valid ways to establish this relationship. The bill also makes minor adjustments to language in other sections to ensure consistency and include these new methods, reflecting a recommendation from the Boyd-Graves Conference, a group that reviews and proposes changes to Virginia's laws.

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https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB224