Section 209C:23 - [Effective 1/1/2025] Intermarriage of parents; jurisdiction(a) If, after adjudication of parentage or voluntary acknowledgment of parentage, the parents of the child intermarry, any order or judgments of the court relative to support, custody, visitation and restraint on personal liberty shall be null and void, except as to any support arrearage which is owed to the commonwealth as reimbursement for public assistance and which accrued before the date that the parents intermarry.and the court shall have no continuing jurisdiction over the parties under this chapter.(b) If, after proceedings are commenced but before an adjudication of parentage is issued, the parents intermarry, the court may adjudicate parentage hereunder but shall have no other jurisdiction over the child or the parents under this chapter.(c) An action under this chapter may be commenced after the intermarriage of the parents of the child only to determine parentage.Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 209C:23
Amended by Acts 2024, c. 166,§ 64, eff. 1/1/2025.Amended by Acts 2005 , c. 163, § 50, eff. 12/8/2005.This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.