Effective: March 22, 2001
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 180 - 123rd General Assembly
(A) On the filing of an acknowledgment, the office of child support shall examine the acknowledgment to determine whether it is completed correctly. The office shall make the examination no later than five days after the acknowledgment is filed. If the acknowledgment is completed correctly, the office shall comply with division (B) of this section. If the acknowledgment is not completed correctly, the office shall return it to the person or entity that filed it. The person or entity shall have ten days from the date the office sends the acknowledgment back to correct it and return it to the office. The office shall send, along with the acknowledgment, a notice stating what needs to be corrected and the amount of time the person or entity has to make the corrections and return the acknowledgment to the office.
If the person or entity returns the acknowledgment in a timely manner, the office shall examine the acknowledgment again to determine whether it has been correctly completed. If the acknowledgment has been correctly completed, the office shall comply with division (B) of this section. If the acknowledgment has not been correctly completed the second time or if the acknowledgment is not returned to the office in a timely manner, the acknowledgment is invalid and the office shall return it to the person or entity and shall not enter it into the birth registry. If the office returns an acknowledgment the second time, it shall send a notice to the person or entity stating the errors in the acknowledgment and that the acknowledgment is invalid.
(B) If the office determines an acknowledgment is correctly completed, the office shall enter the information on the acknowledgment into the birth registry pursuant to sections 3111.64 and 3111.65 of the Revised Code. After entering the information in the registry, the office shall send the acknowledgment to the department of health for storage pursuant to section 3705.091 of the Revised Code. The office may request that the department of health send back to the office any acknowledgment that is being stored by the department of health pursuant to that section.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 31 | Domestic Relations-Children
Section 3111.01 | Parent and Child Relationship Defined.
Section 3111.02 | Establishing Parent and Child Relationship.
Section 3111.03 | Presumption of Paternity.
Section 3111.04 | Standing to Bring Paternity Action.
Section 3111.05 | Statute of Limitations.
Section 3111.06 | Jurisdiction of Courts - Personal Jurisdiction.
Section 3111.07 | Parties to Action - Intervention.
Section 3111.08 | Rules of Civil Procedure Govern Action.
Section 3111.09 | Genetic Tests - DNA Records.
Section 3111.10 | Evidence of Paternity.
Section 3111.11 | Pretrial Hearing.
Section 3111.111 | Temporary Support Order.
Section 3111.12 | Witnesses - Admission of Evidence - Priority of Actions.
Section 3111.13 | Judgment or Order.
Section 3111.14 | Fees and Costs of Action.
Section 3111.15 | Enforcing Father's Obligation.
Section 3111.16 | Continuing Jurisdiction.
Section 3111.17 | Determining Mother and Child Relationship.
Section 3111.18 | Preparing New Birth Record.
Section 3111.19 | Interfering With Establishment of Paternity.
Section 3111.20 | Birth Record Defined.
Section 3111.21 | Notarizing Acknowledgment.
Section 3111.22 | Acknowledgment to Be Sent to Job and Family Services Department.
Section 3111.23 | Acknowledgment Filed With Office of Child Support.
Section 3111.24 | Determining Whether Acknowledgment Is Completed Correctly.
Section 3111.25 | Acknowledgment of Paternity Is Final and Enforceable.
Section 3111.26 | Effects of Final and Enforceable Acknowledgment.
Section 3111.27 | Rescinding Acknowledgment.
Section 3111.28 | Action Rescinding Acknowledgment.
Section 3111.29 | Enforcing Support Obligation.
Section 3111.30 | Preparing New Birth Record.
Section 3111.31 | Acknowledgment of Paternity Affidavit Form.
Section 3111.32 | Information Pamphlets - Toll-Free Telephone Number.
Section 3111.33 | Distributing Pamphlets and Forms.
Section 3111.34 | Evidence Necessary to Complete New Birth Record.
Section 3111.35 | Implementing Provisions.
Section 3111.38 | Requesting Administrative Determination of Paternity.
Section 3111.381 | Request to Precede Court Action - Jurisdiction.
Section 3111.39 | Requests Filed With Multiple Agencies.
Section 3111.40 | Request Contents.
Section 3111.41 | Assigning to Administrative Officer - Order for Genetic Testing.
Section 3111.42 | Attaching Notice to Order.
Section 3111.421 | Serving Notice and Order.
Section 3111.43 | Persons to Be Notified - Genetic Testing of Persons Present.
Section 3111.44 | Information Conference.
Section 3111.45 | Test Conducted by Qualified Examiner.
Section 3111.46 | Finding Paternity or Nonpaternity.
Section 3111.47 | Failure to Submit to Test Results in Inconclusive Finding.
Section 3111.48 | Information Included in Order.
Section 3111.49 | Conclusiveness of Order.
Section 3111.50 | Bringing Action Where Order Is Inconclusive.
Section 3111.52 | Changing Surname of Child.
Section 3111.53 | Administrative Officer.
Section 3111.58 | New Birth Record.
Section 3111.61 | Samples and Performance of Genetic Testing.
Section 3111.611 | On-Site Genetic Testing.
Section 3111.64 | Birth Registry.
Section 3111.65 | Accessing Registry.
Section 3111.66 | Filing Orders and Entering Into Registry.
Section 3111.67 | Birth Registry Rules.
Section 3111.69 | Locating Absent Parent Using Putative Father Registry.
Section 3111.71 | Contracts With Hospitals to Meet With Unmarried Women Giving Birth.
Section 3111.73 | Annual Report.
Section 3111.74 | Acknowledgment Conflicting With Presumption of Paternity.
Section 3111.77 | Presumed Father Assuming Duty of Support.
Section 3111.78 | Enforcing Obligations of Presumed Father.
Section 3111.80 | Hearing to Determine Child Support and Provision for Health Care.
Section 3111.801 | Requests for Information.
Section 3111.81 | Order Concerning Support and Health Care.
Section 3111.82 | Raise Issue of Existence or Nonexistence of Parent and Child Relationship.
Section 3111.821 | Proceedings - Finality of Acknowledgment.
Section 3111.83 | Registering Order Concerning Support and Health Care.
Section 3111.831 | System for Organized Safekeeping and Retrieval of Administrative Support Orders.
Section 3111.832 | Registering Order With Court.
Section 3111.84 | Bringing Action Objecting to Order - Finality of Unchallenged Order.
Section 3111.85 | Administrative Support Orders Issued Prior to 1-1-98.
Section 3111.88 | Non-Spousal Artificial Insemination Definitions.
Section 3111.89 | Coverage of Provisions.
Section 3111.90 | Physician Supervision.
Section 3111.91 | Medical History and Physical Examination of Donor.
Section 3111.92 | Consent by Both Spouses.
Section 3111.93 | Provisions of Consent Form.
Section 3111.94 | Confidentiality.
Section 3111.95 | Husband Considered Natural Father - Child Natural Child.
Section 3111.96 | Noncompliance.
Section 3111.97 | Parentage of Children Resulting From Embryo Donation.