Connecticut General Statutes

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-42a (2026)

Record of acknowledgment, recission or adjudication of parentage to be maintained in parentage registry. Disclosure of information to IV-D agency. Access to copies of acknowledgments of parentage

✓ current as of May 2026

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(a) All (1) voluntary acknowledgments of parentage and rescissions of such acknowledgments executed in accordance with sections 46b-476 to 46b-489, inclusive, and (2) adjudications of parentage issued by a court or family support magistrate under section 46b-471, section 46b-569, section 46b-571, or any other provision of the general statutes shall be filed in the parentage registry maintained by the Department of Public Health. All information in such registry shall be made available to the IV-D agency, as defined in subdivision (12) of subsection (b) of section 46b-231, for comparison with information in the state case registry established under subsection (l) of section 17b-179. The IV-D agency may disclose information in the parentage registry to an agency under cooperative agreement with the IV-D agency for child support enforcement purposes.

(b) Except for the IV-D agency, as provided in subsection (a) of this section, the department shall restrict access to and issuance of certified copies of acknowledgments of parentage to the following parties: (1) Parents named on the acknowledgment of parentage; (2) the person whose birth is acknowledged, if such person is eighteen years of age or older; (3) a guardian of the person whose birth is acknowledged; (4) an authorized representative of the Department of Social Services; (5) an attorney representing such person or a parent named on the acknowledgment; or (6) agents of a state or federal agency, as approved by the department.

(June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-7, S. 6, 38; P.A. 04-255, S. 16; P.A. 11-219, S. 4; P.A. 18-168, S. 57; P.A. 21-15, S. 97.)

History: June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-7 effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 04-255 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re access to and issuance of copies of acknowledgments of paternity; P.A. 11-219 amended Subsec. (a) to provide that IV-D agency may disclose information in registry to agency under cooperative agreement; P.A. 18-168 amended Subsec. (b) by making a technical change in Subdiv. (2), adding a new Subdiv. (3) re guardian of person whose birth is acknowledged and redesignating existing Subdivs. (3) to (5) as Subdivs. (4) to (6), effective July 1, 2018; P.A. 21-15 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) by changing “paternity” to “parentage”, amended Subsec. (a)(1) by changing “subsection (a) of section 46b-172” to “sections 46b-476 to 46b-489, inclusive,” and amended Subsec. (a)(2) by adding reference to Sec. 46b-471, effective January 1, 2022.

See Sec. 7-36 for applicable definitions.

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Notes of Decisions

Cited in 4 cases, 2000–2011 · leading case: In re Michaela Lee R., 756 A.2d 214 (Conn. 2000).

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In re Michaela Lee R., 756 A.2d 214 (Conn. 2000). · cites it 3× “General Statutes § 7-50 currently provides in relevant part: “Upon the filing of a voluntary acknowledgment or adjudication of paternity in the paternity registry maintained by the Department of Public Health, as required by section 19a-42a, the name of the father of a child bom…”

Raftopol v. Ramey, 12 A.3d 783 (Conn. 2011). · cites it 2× “Except as provided in section 19a-42a, access to confidential files on paternity, adoption, gender change or gestational agreements, or information contained within such files, shall not be released to any party, including the eligible parties listed in this subsection, except…”

Okeke v. Comm'r of Pub. Health, 999 A.2d 808 (Conn. App. Ct. 2010). · cites it 2× “All acknowledgments and rescissions executed in accordance with this subsection shall be filed in the paternity registry established and maintained by the Department of Public Health under section 19a-42a." [4] The copies of the form in the record do not contain the material on…”

Shockley v. Okeke, 856 A.2d 1054 (Conn. Super. Ct. 2004). “Section 19a-42a contains no mention of establishing the child’s legal name.”

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