GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1985 SESSION

CHAPTER 208 
SENATE BILL 336 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 49-14 TO ALLOW THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PATERNITY UNTIL AGE EIGHTEEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH NORTH CAROLINA CASE LAW AND AS REQUIRED BY FEDERAL LAW. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 49-14(a) is amended by deleting the period at the end of the first sentence and adding the following at the end of that sentence: 
"at any time prior to such child's eighteenth birthday". 
Sec. 2.  G.S. 49-14 is amended by adding a new subsection (d) as follows: 
"(d)	If the action to establish paternity is brought more than three years after birth of a child, paternity shall not be established in a contested case without evidence from a blood grouping test, or evidence that the putative father has declined an opportunity for such testing." 
Sec. 3.  This act shall be effective October 1, 1985. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 20th day of May, 1985.