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Legal fathers
Intro
Every child has a biological father, but not every child has a legal father. A legal father is the man the law recognizes as the father of a child.
- When a married woman has a child, Minnesota law automatically recognizes the woman's spouse as the child's legal parent. If the mother is married to someone other than the child's biological father, the biological father can be named as the legal father through a voluntary process or court order.
- If a mother is not married when her child is born, the child does not have a legal father. Establishing parentage gives a child born outside of marriage a legal father and the same legal rights as a child born to married parents.
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