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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 15 Sec. 111

  • Adjudicated parent: means a person who has been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction to be a parent of a child. See
  • Alleged genetic parent: means a person who is alleged to be, or alleges that the person is, a genetic parent or possible genetic parent of a child whose parentage has not been adjudicated. See
  • Birth: includes stillbirth. See
  • Child: means a person of any age whose parentage may be determined under this title. See
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Gestational carrier: means an adult person who is not an intended parent and who enters into a gestational carrier agreement to bear a child conceived using the gametes of other persons and not the gestational carrier's own, except that a person who carries a child for a family member using the gestational carrier's own gametes and who fulfills the requirements of chapter 8 of this title is a gestational carrier. See
  • Parent: means a person who has established parentage that meets the requirements of this title. See
  • Parentage: means the legal relationship between a child and a parent as established under this title. See

§ 111. Orders

(a) Interim order for support. In a proceeding under this title, the court may issue an interim order for support of a child in accordance with the child support guidelines under 15 V.S.A. § 654 with respect to a person who is:

(1) a presumed, acknowledged, or adjudicated parent of the child;

(2) petitioning to have parentage adjudicated;

(3) identified as the genetic parent through genetic testing under chapter 6 of this title;

(4) an alleged genetic parent who has declined to submit to genetic testing;

(5) shown by a preponderance of evidence to be a parent of the child;

(6) the person who gave birth to the child, other than a gestational carrier; or

(7) a parent under this chapter.

(b) Interim order for parental rights and responsibilities. In a proceeding under this title, the court may make an interim order regarding parental rights and responsibilities on a temporary basis.

(c) Final orders. Final orders concerning child support or parental rights and responsibilities shall be governed by Title 15. (Added 2017, No. 162 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)