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AB314,28815Section 288. 767.89 (3) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,137,2316767.89 (3) (e) 1. An order establishing the amount of the fathers adjudicated
17parents obligation to pay or contribute to the reasonable expenses of the mothers
18pregnancy and the childs birth childbirth. The amount established may not exceed
19one-half of the total actual and reasonable pregnancy and birth expenses. The
20order also shall specify the courts findings as to whether the fathers adjudicated
21parents income is at or below the poverty line established under 42 USC 9902 (2),
22and shall specify whether periodic payments are due on the obligation, based on the
23fathers adjudicated parents ability to pay or contribute to those expenses.
AB314,138,4
12. If the order does not require periodic payments because the father
2adjudicated parent has no present ability to pay or contribute to the expenses, the
3court may modify the judgment or order at a later date to require periodic payments
4if the father adjudicated parent has the ability to pay at that time.
AB314,2895Section 289. 767.893 (1m), (2) (b) 1. and 2. and (2m) (a) of the statutes are
6amended to read:
AB314,138,137767.893 (1m) Judgment when mother parent fails to appear.
8Notwithstanding sub. (1), a court may enter an order adjudicating the alleged
9father parent, or male person alleging that he is the father to be the parent, to be
10the father parent of the child under s. 767.89 if the mother of person who gave birth
11to the child fails to appear at the first appearance, scheduled genetic test, pretrial
12hearing, or trial if sufficient evidence exists to establish the male person as the
13father parent of the child.
AB314,138,1514(2) (b) 1. Only one of those persons fails to appear and all of the other male
15respondents have been excluded as the father parent.
AB314,138,19162. The alleged father parent who fails to appear has had genetic tests under s.
1749.225 or 767.84 showing that the alleged father parent is not excluded and that the
18statistical probability of the alleged fathers parents parentage is 99.0 percent or
19higher.
AB314,139,420(2m) (a) At any time after service of the summons and petition, a respondent
21who is the alleged father parent may, with or without appearance in court and
22subject to the approval of the court, in writing acknowledge that he the alleged
23parent has read and understands the notice under s. 767.813 (5g) and stipulate that

1he is to being the father parent of the child and for child support payments, legal
2custody, and physical placement. The court may not approve a stipulation for child
3support unless it provides for payment of child support determined in a manner
4consistent with s. 767.511 or 767.89.
AB314,2905Section 290. 767.895 (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,139,116767.895 Motion to reopen judgment based on statement
7acknowledging paternity parentage. (intro.) A judgment which adjudicates a
8person to be the father parent of a child and which was based upon a statement
9acknowledging paternity parentage that was signed and filed before April 1, 1998,
10may, if no trial was conducted, be reopened under any of the following
11circumstances:
AB314,29112Section 291. 769.201 (1m) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,139,1613769.201 (1m) (g) The individual asserted parentage of a child in a declaration
14of paternal parental interest filed with the department of children and families
15under s. 48.025 or in a statement acknowledging paternity parentage filed with the
16state registrar under s. 69.15 (3) (b) 1. or 3.
AB314,29217Section 292. 769.316 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,140,218769.316 (4) Copies of bills for testing for parentage of a child, or for prenatal
19and postnatal health care of the mother person who gave birth and the child, or
20copies of reports of medical assistance payments under subch. IV of ch. 49 for such
21testing or prenatal and postnatal health care, furnished to the adverse party at
22least 10 days before trial, are admissible in evidence to prove the amount of the

1charges billed or the amount of the medical assistance paid and that the charges or
2payments were reasonable, necessary, and customary.
AB314,2933Section 293. 769.316 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,140,64769.316 (9) The defense of immunity based on the relationship of husband
5and wife between spouses or parent and child does not apply in a proceeding under
6this chapter.
AB314,2947Section 294. 769.401 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,140,88769.401 (2) (a) A parent or presumed father parent of the child.
AB314,2959Section 295. 769.401 (2) (g) of the statutes is repealed.
AB314,29610Section 296. 770.07 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,140,1911770.07 (2) If sub. (1) and s. 770.05 are complied with, the county clerk shall
12issue a declaration of domestic partnership. With each declaration of domestic
13partnership the county clerk shall provide information describing the causes and
14effects of fetal alcohol syndrome and the dangers to a fetus from the mothers use of
15cocaine or other drugs by the pregnant person during pregnancy. After the
16application for the declaration of domestic partnership is filed, the clerk shall, upon
17the sworn statement of either of the applicants, correct any erroneous, false, or
18insufficient statement in the application that comes to the clerks attention and
19shall notify the other applicant of the correction, as soon as reasonably possible.
AB314,29720Section 297. 786.36 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,141,221786.36 (1) (c) The minors mother the person who gave birth to the minor, if
22the minor is a nonmarital child who is not adopted or whose parents do not

1subsequently intermarry under s. 767.803 and if paternity parentage of the minor
2has not been established.
AB314,2983Section 298. 808.075 (4) (a) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,141,54808.075 (4) (a) 4. Hearing for child held in custody under s. 48.21 or an adult
5expectant mother parent of an unborn child held in custody under s. 48.213.
AB314,2996Section 299. 815.20 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,141,207815.20 (1) An exempt homestead as defined in s. 990.01 (14) selected by a
8resident owner and occupied by him or her shall be exempt from execution, from the
9lien of every judgment, and from liability for the debts of the owner to the amount of
10$75,000, except mortgages, laborers, mechanics, and purchase money liens, and
11taxes, and except as otherwise provided. The exemption shall not be impaired by
12temporary removal with the intention to reoccupy the premises as a homestead nor
13by the sale of the homestead, but shall extend to the proceeds derived from the sale
14to an amount not exceeding $75,000, while held, with the intention to procure
15another homestead with the proceeds, for 2 years. The exemption extends to land
16owned by husband and wife spouses jointly or in common or as marital property,
17and each spouse may claim a homestead exemption of not more than $75,000. The
18exemption extends to the interest therein of tenants in common, having a
19homestead thereon with the consent of the cotenants, and to any estate less than a
20fee.
AB314,30021Section 300. 822.40 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,142,222822.40 (4) A privilege against disclosure of communications between spouses
23and a defense of immunity based on the relationship of husband and wife between

1spouses or parent and child may not be invoked in a proceeding under this
2subchapter.
AB314,3013Section 301. 851.30 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,142,84851.30 (2) (a) An individual who obtains or consents to a final decree or
5judgment of divorce from the decedent or an annulment of their marriage, if the
6decree or judgment is not recognized as valid in this state, unless they subsequently
7participate in a marriage ceremony purporting to marry each other or they
8subsequently hold themselves out as husband and wife married to each other.
AB314,3029Section 302. 852.01 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,142,1210852.01 (1) (d) If there is no surviving spouse, surviving domestic partner,
11issue, or parent, to the brothers and sisters siblings and the issue of any deceased
12brother or sister sibling per stirpes.
AB314,30313Section 303. 852.01 (1) (f) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,142,1714852.01 (1) (f) 1. One-half to the maternal grandparents on one side equally if
15both survive, or to the surviving maternal grandparent on that side; if both
16maternal grandparents on that side are deceased, to the issue of the maternal
17grandparents on that side or either of them, per stirpes.
AB314,30418Section 304. 852.01 (1) (f) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,142,2019852.01 (1) (f) 2. One-half to the paternal relations on the other side in the
20same manner as to the maternal relations under subd. 1.
AB314,30521Section 305. 852.01 (1) (f) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,143,222852.01 (1) (f) 3. If either the maternal side or the paternal side has no

1surviving grandparent or issue of a grandparent, the entire estate to the decedents
2relatives on the other side.
AB314,3063Section 306. 852.05 (1) and (2) of the statutes are amended to read:
AB314,143,84852.05 (1) A child born to unmarried parents, or the childs issue, is treated in
5the same manner as a child, or the issue of a child, born to married parents with
6respect to intestate succession from and through the childs mother person who
7gave birth to the child, and from and through the childs father other parent if any
8of the following applies to the person alleged to be the other parent of the child:
AB314,143,119(a) The father person has been adjudicated to be the father a parent of the
10child in a paternity parentage proceeding under ch. 767 or by final order or
11judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction in another state.
AB314,143,1312(b) The father person has admitted in open court that he is the father to being
13the parent of the child.
AB314,143,1514(c) The father person has acknowledged himself to be the father parentage in
15writing signed by him the person.
AB314,143,2216(2) Property of a child born to unmarried parents passes in accordance with s.
17852.01 except that the father or the fathers kindred a parent who did not give birth
18to the child, or the kindred of such a parent, can inherit only if the father the parent
19has been adjudicated to be the father parent of the child in a paternity parentage
20proceeding under ch. 767 or by final order or judgment of a court of competent
21jurisdiction in another state or has been determined to be the father parent under s.
22767.804 or 767.805 or a substantially similar law of another state.
AB314,30723Section 307. 854.03 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,144,7
1854.03 (3) Marital property. Except as provided in subs. (4) and (5), if a
2husband and wife 2 spouses die leaving marital property and it is not established
3that one survived the other by at least 120 hours, 50 percent of the marital property
4shall be distributed as if it were the husbands the first spouses individual property
5and the husband 2nd spouse had survived, and 50 percent of the marital property
6shall be distributed as if it were the wifes 2nd spouses individual property and the
7wife first spouse had survived.
AB314,3088Section 308. 891.39 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,144,109891.39 (title) Presumption as to whether a child is marital or
10nonmarital; self-crimination self-incrimination; birth certificates.
AB314,30911Section 309. 891.39 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,145,312891.39 (1) (a) Whenever it is established in an action or proceeding that a
13child was born to a woman person while he or she was the lawful wife of legally
14married to a specified man person, any party asserting in such action or proceeding
15that the husband was spouse is not the father parent of the child shall have the
16burden of proving that assertion by a clear and satisfactory preponderance of the
17evidence. In all such actions or proceedings the husband and the wife spouses are
18competent to testify as witnesses to the facts. The court or judge in such cases shall
19appoint a guardian ad litem to appear for and represent the child whose paternity
20parentage is questioned. Results of a genetic test, as defined in s. 767.001 (1m),
21showing that a man person other than the husband spouse of the person who gave
22birth to the child is not excluded as the father parent of the child and that the
23statistical probability of the mans persons parentage is 99.0 percent or higher

1constitute a clear and satisfactory preponderance of the evidence of the assertion
2under this paragraph, even if the husband spouse of the person who gave birth to
3the child is unavailable to submit to genetic tests, as defined in s. 767.001 (1m).
AB314,3104Section 310. 891.39 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,145,115891.39 (2) (a) The mother of person who gave birth to the child shall not be
6excused or privileged from testifying fully in any action or proceeding mentioned in
7sub. (1) in which the determination of whether the child is a marital or nonmarital
8child is involved or in issue, when ordered to testify by a court of record or any judge
9thereof; but she the person who gave birth to the child shall not be prosecuted or
10subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of testifying or producing
11evidence, except for perjury committed in giving the testimony.
AB314,31112Section 311. 891.39 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,145,1913891.39 (3) If any court under this section adjudges a child to be a nonmarital
14child, the clerk of court shall report the facts to the state registrar, who shall issue
15a new birth record showing the correct facts as found by the court, and shall dispose
16of the original, with the courts report attached under s. 69.15 (3). If the husband
17spouse of the person who gave birth to the child is a party to the action and the
18court makes a finding as to whether or not the husband spouse is the father parent
19of the child, such finding shall be conclusive in all other courts of this state.
AB314,31220Section 312. 891.395 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,146,821891.395 Presumption as to time of conception. In any paternity
22parentage proceeding, in the absence of a valid birth certificate indicating the birth
23weight, the mother person who gave birth to the child shall be competent to testify

1as to the birth weight of the child whose paternity parentage is at issue, and where
2the child whose paternity parentage is at issue weighed 5 1/2 pounds or more at the
3time of its birth, the testimony of the mother person who gave birth to the child as
4to the weight shall be presumptive evidence that the child was a full term child,
5unless competent evidence to the contrary is presented to the court. The conception
6of the child shall be presumed to have occurred within a span of time extending
7from 240 days to 300 days before the date of its birth, unless competent evidence to
8the contrary is presented to the court.
AB314,3139Section 313. 891.40 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,147,310891.40 Artificial insemination. (1) If, A person is the natural parent of a
11child conceived by artificial insemination if the artificial insemination is performed
12under the supervision of a licensed physician and with the consent of her husband,
13a wife is inseminated artificially with semen donated by a man not her husband,
14the husband of the mother at the time of the conception of the child shall be the
15natural father of a child conceived. The husbands consent must be in writing and
16signed by him and his wife if the person who receives the artificial insemination
17and the spouse of that person consent to the artificial insemination in a written
18document signed by both parties. The physician performing the artificial
19insemination shall certify their both parties signatures and the date of the
20insemination, and shall file the husbands consent form with the department of
21health services, where it shall be kept confidential and in a sealed file except as
22provided in s. 46.03 (7) (bm). However, the physicians failure to file the consent
23form does not affect the legal status of father parent and child. All papers and

1records pertaining to the insemination, whether part of the permanent record of a
2court or of a file held by the supervising physician or elsewhere, may be inspected
3only upon an order of the court for good cause shown.
AB314,147,74(2) The donor of semen provided to a licensed physician for use in artificial
5insemination of a woman person other than the donors wife spouse is not the
6natural father parent of a child conceived, bears no liability for the support of the
7child and has no parental rights with regard to the child.
AB314,3148Section 314. 891.405 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,147,139891.405 Presumption of paternity parentage based on
10acknowledgment. A man person is presumed to be the natural father parent of a
11child if he the person and the mother person who gave birth to the child have
12acknowledged paternity parentage under s. 69.15 (3) (b) 1. or 3. and no other man
13person is presumed to be the father natural parent under s. 891.41 (1).
AB314,31514Section 315. 891.407 of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,147,1915891.407 Presumption of paternity parentage based on genetic test
16results. A man person is presumed to be the natural father parent of a child if the
17man person has been conclusively determined from genetic test results to be the
18father parent under s. 767.804 and no other man is presumed to be the father
19person is presumed to be a parent of the child under s. 891.405 or 891.41 (1).
AB314,31620Section 316. 891.41 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,147,2221891.41 (title) Presumption of paternity parentage based on marriage
22of the parties.
AB314,31723Section 317. 891.41 (1) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,148,2
1891.41 (1) (intro.) A man person is presumed to be the natural father parent
2of a child if any of the following applies:
AB314,3183Section 318. 891.41 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,148,74891.41 (1) (a) He The person and the childs natural mother person who gave
5birth to the child are or have been married to each other and the child is conceived
6or born after marriage and before the granting of a decree of legal separation,
7annulment, or divorce between the parties.
AB314,3198Section 319. 891.41 (1) (b) of the statutes is renumbered 891.41 (1) (b)
9(intro.) and amended to read:
AB314,148,1410891.41 (1) (b) (intro.) He The person and the childs natural mother person
11who gave birth to the child were married to each other after the child was born but
12he the person and the childs natural mother person who gave birth to the child had
13a relationship with one another during the period of time within which the child
14was conceived and no other man all of the following apply:
AB314,148,15151. No person has been adjudicated to be the father or other parent.
AB314,148,17162. No other person is presumed to be the father parent of the child under par.
17(a).
AB314,32018Section 320. 891.41 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,149,219891.41 (2) In a legal action or proceeding, a presumption under sub. (1) is
20rebutted by results of a genetic test, as defined in s. 767.001 (1m), that show that a
21man person other than the man person presumed to be the father natural parent
22under sub. (1) is not excluded as the father parent of the child and that the
23statistical probability of the mans persons parentage is 99.0 percent or higher,

1even if the man person presumed to be the father natural parent under sub. (1) is
2unavailable to submit to genetic tests, as defined in s. 767.001 (1m).
AB314,3213Section 321. 891.41 (3) of the statutes is created to read:
AB314,149,54891.41 (3) This section applies with respect to children born before, on, or
5after the effective date of this subsection .... [LRB inserts date].
AB314,3226Section 322. 905.04 (4) (e) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,149,147905.04 (4) (e) 3. There is no privilege in situations where the examination of
8the expectant mother of person pregnant with an abused unborn child creates a
9reasonable ground for an opinion of the physician, registered nurse, chiropractor,
10psychologist, social worker, marriage and family therapist or professional counselor
11that the physical injury inflicted on the unborn child was caused by the habitual
12lack of self-control of the expectant mother of person pregnant with the unborn
13child in the use of alcohol beverages, controlled substances or controlled substance
14analogs, exhibited to a severe degree.
AB314,32315Section 323. 905.05 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,149,1616905.05 (title) Husband-wife Spousal and domestic partner privilege.
AB314,32417Section 324. 938.02 (5s) of the statutes is created to read:
AB314,149,1818938.02 (5s) Expectant parent means a person who is pregnant.
AB314,32519Section 325. 938.02 (13) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,150,1620938.02 (13) Parent means a biological natural parent, a husband who has
21consented to the artificial insemination of his wife under s. 891.40, or a parent by
22adoption. If the juvenile is a nonmarital child who is not adopted or whose parents
23do not subsequently intermarry under s. 767.803, parent includes a person

1conclusively determined from genetic test results to be the father parent under s.
2767.804 or a person acknowledged under s. 767.805 or a substantially similar law of
3another state or adjudicated to be the biological father natural parent. Parent
4does not include any person whose parental rights have been terminated. For
5purposes of the application of s. 938.028 and the federal Indian Child Welfare Act,
625 USC 1901 to 1963, parent means a biological natural parent of an Indian child,
7an Indian husband spouse who has consented to the artificial insemination of his
8wife or her spouse under s. 891.40, or an Indian person who has lawfully adopted an
9Indian juvenile, including an adoption under tribal law or custom, and includes, in
10the case of a nonmarital Indian child who is not adopted or whose parents do not
11subsequently intermarry under s. 767.803, a person conclusively determined from
12genetic test results to be the father parent under s. 767.804, a person acknowledged
13under s. 767.805, a substantially similar law of another state, or tribal law or
14custom to be the biological father natural parent, or a person adjudicated to be the
15biological father natural parent, but does not include any person whose parental
16rights have been terminated.
AB314,32617Section 326. 938.27 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB314,150,2218938.27 (3) (b) 1. Except as provided in subd. 2., if the petition that was filed
19relates to facts concerning a situation under s. 938.13 and if the juvenile is a
20nonmarital child who is not adopted or whose parents do not subsequently
21intermarry as provided under s. 767.803 and if paternity parentage has not been
22established, the court shall notify, under s. 938.273, all of the following persons:
AB314,151,2
1a. A person who has filed a declaration of paternal parental interest under s.
248.025.
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