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750 ILCS 46/302

    (750 ILCS 46/302)
    Sec. 302. Execution of voluntary acknowledgment.

(a) A voluntary acknowledgment described in Section 301 of this Act must:

(1) be in a record;

(2) be signed, or otherwise authenticated, under

penalty of perjury by the mother and by the man seeking to establish his parentage;

(3) state that the child whose parentage is being

acknowledged:

(A) does not have a presumed parent, or has a

presumed parent whose full name is stated; and

(B) does not have another acknowledged or

adjudicated parent;

(4) be witnessed; and

(5) state that the signatories understand that the

voluntary acknowledgment is the equivalent of a judicial adjudication of parentage of the child and that: (i) a challenge by a signatory to the voluntary acknowledgment may be permitted only upon a showing of fraud, duress, or material mistake of fact; and (ii) a challenge to the voluntary acknowledgment is barred after 2 years unless that period is tolled pursuant to the law.

(b) An acknowledgment is void if it:

(1) states that another person is a presumed parent,

unless a denial signed or otherwise authenticated by the presumed parent is filed with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, as provided by law;

(2) states that another person is an acknowledged or

adjudicated parent; or

(3) falsely denies the existence of a presumed,

acknowledged, or adjudicated parent of the child.

(c) A presumed father may sign or otherwise authenticate a voluntary acknowledgment.

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