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    <CFRTITLE>45</CFRTITLE>
    <CFRTITLETEXT>Public Welfare</CFRTITLETEXT>
    <VOL>2</VOL>
    <DATE>2001-10-01</DATE>
    <ORIGINALDATE>2001-10-01</ORIGINALDATE>
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    <TITLE>What procedures for the establishment of paternity must a Tribe or Tribal organization include in a Tribal CSE plan?</TITLE>
    <GRANULENUM>310.100</GRANULENUM>
    <HEADING>Section 310.100</HEADING>
    <ANCESTORS>
      <PARENT HEADING="Title 45" SEQ="4">Public Welfare</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="Subtitle B" SEQ="3">Regulations Relating to Public Welfare</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="CHAPTER III" SEQ="2">OFFICE OF CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT(CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENTPROGRAM), ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDRENAND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHAND HUMAN SERVICES</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="PART 310" SEQ="1">COMPREHENSIVE TRIBAL CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT (CSE) PROGRAMS</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="Subpart C" SEQ="0">Tribal CSE Plan Requirements</PARENT>
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    <SECTNO>§ 310.100</SECTNO>
    <SUBJECT>What procedures for the establishment of paternity must a Tribe or Tribal organization include in a Tribal CSE plan?</SUBJECT>
    <P>(a) A Tribe or Tribal organization demonstrates capacity to operate a Tribal CSE program meeting the objectives of title IV-D of the Act when its Tribal CSE plan includes the procedures that result in the establishment of paternity included in this section. For cases in which paternity has not been established, the Tribe must include in its Tribal CSE plan the procedures under which the Tribal CSE agency will:</P>
    <P>(1) Attempt to establish paternity by the process established under Tribal law, code, and/or custom; and</P>
    <P>(2) Provide an alleged father the opportunity to voluntarily acknowledge paternity.</P>
    <P>(b) The Tribal CSE agency need not attempt to establish paternity in any case involving incest or forcible rape, or in any case in which legal proceedings for adoption are pending, if, in the opinion of the Tribal CSE agency, it would not be in the best interests of the child to establish paternity.</P>
    <P>(c) When genetic testing is used to establish paternity, the Tribal CSE agency must identify and use accredited laboratories which perform, at reasonable cost, legally and medically acceptable genetic tests which tend to identify the father or exclude the alleged father.</P>
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