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Division/Section Family Support Chapter No./Name 04 – Economic Stability (ES) Part No./Name B – Eligibility Factors Section No./Name B-1200-FITAP Support Enforcement Services Document No./Name B-1230-FITAP Reporting to Child Support Enforcement Effective Date July 1, 2019

1 of 4 I. STATEMENT OF POLICY

Each applicant or recipient of FITAP is required to cooperate in identifying and locating the parent(s) of a child (ren) who is absent from the home.

B-1231-FITAP - PO INITIAL REFERRAL

* Initial referrals to CSE are made at certification ** on all parents of FITAP children who are absent from the home, with the Referral Exceptions noted in B-1231-1-FITAP. These parents include:

● the child's mother,

● a man named as the child's father by the mother,

● the child's legal father. A legally responsible father is defined as a man married to the mother at the time the child is born, unless another man is presumed to be the father. (A common law union which has been formed in another state and recognized there as legally valid is considered a legal marriage in Louisiana.)

This includes a husband:

o who was legally separated or divorced from the mother less than 300 days before the birth of the child, and who has not obtained a court judgment declaring that he is not the child's father.

o who is informally separated from the mother, regardless of duration of the separation, and who has not obtained court judgment declaring he is not the child's father.

o who is aware of his wife's pregnancy at the time of the marriage, regardless of how soon the child is born after the marriage.

● the adoptive parent who has been legally granted a final decree of adoption,

● the child's natural father determined by the agency on the basis of reliable information such as:

o A man whose name appears on the child's birth certificate as father, or

o A man who has acknowledged paternity of the child in a written document executed before a notary public in the presence of two witnesses, or

o A man who has been declared to be the child's father by a court judgment, or

o A man who verbally acknowledges that he is the father, or

o A man who is shown as the father in school records.