(750 ILCS 46/312)

Sec. 312. Forms for voluntary acknowledgment and denial of parentage.

(a) To facilitate compliance with this Article, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall prescribe forms for the voluntary acknowledgment and denial of parentage and for the rescission of the voluntary acknowledgment or denial of parentage consistent with Section 307 of this Act.

(b) A voluntary acknowledgment, denial, or rescission of voluntary acknowledgment or denial of parentage, regardless of which version of the prescribed form is used, is not affected by a later modification of the prescribed form.

(c) Any voluntary acknowledgment, denial, or rescission of voluntary acknowledgement or denial of parentage that was completed before January 1, 2016 is valid if it met all criteria for validity at the time it was signed.

(Source: P.A. 99-85, eff. 1-1-16; 99-769, eff. 1-1-17.)