§ 5-1006. Limitations

   (a) Child's eighteenth birthday. -- Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) of this section, a proceeding to establish paternity of a child under this subtitle may be begun at any time before the child's eighteenth birthday.

(b) Complaint during pregnancy. -- A paternity proceeding under this subtitle may be begun during pregnancy.

(c) Out-of-state conception or birth. -- A complaint under this subtitle is not barred because the child born out of wedlock was conceived or born outside this State.

(d) Dependent child's twenty-first birthday. -- A proceeding to establish paternity of a child who is dependent on a parent because of a mental or physical infirmity may be begun at any time before the child's twenty-first birthday.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 16, § 66; 1984, ch. 296, § 2; 1985, ch. 451; 1995, ch. 248; 1996, ch. 10, § 1; 2007, ch. 242.