Legal Father

Legal Father A. For the deprivation determination, a child’s legal father is one of the following: 1. A man whose name appears on the child’s birth certificate unless a court has determined otherwise, 2. A man who has been declared to be the child’s father by a court order, 3. A man who has acknowledged paternity of the child in an Admission of Paternity if there is no legal father either on the birth certificate or in a court order, or 4. A man who married the child’s mother subsequent to the birth and publicly acknowledges that he is the father of the child when there is no legal father listed on the child’s birth certificate and a paternity order has not been issued establishing a different person as the father.