Section 4965.

(a) A tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating or responding tribunal in a proceeding brought under this chapter or a law or procedure substantially similar to this chapter, the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, or the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act to determine that the petitioner is a parent of a particular child or to determine that a respondent is a parent of that child.

(b) In a proceeding to determine parentage, a responding tribunal of this state shall apply the Uniform Parentage Act (Part 3 (commencing with Section 7600) of Division 12), procedural and substantive law of this state, and the rules of this state on choice of law.

(Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 194, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1998. Superseded on operative date (July 1, 2004, or later) of amendment by Stats. 2002, Ch. 349.)