paternity

Specified paternity pair

Record the child and the person asserted to occupy the father position, preserving unresolved identity where necessary.

1. Which child and which asserted father does this claim concern? definition
2. What establishes that the evidence and records refer to these same people? provenance

Attributed paternity definition

Record what the claimant or recognising body means by paternity, including whether the term combines several relations.

1. Does paternity here mean genetic contribution, legal father status, social fatherhood or an explicitly different relation? definition
2. Who uses this definition, and what would they count as an instance or counterexample? boundary

Report-to-person link

Record the origin of a genetic report and the documented basis for associating its specimens with the paternity pair.

1. Which report supports this genetic paternity claim, and who issued it? provenance
2. How were the tested specimens linked to the child and asserted father, and what uncertainty remains in that linkage? provenance

Conditional genetic conclusion

Record the report's conclusion and statistical interpretation without promoting them into a legal or social determination.

1. What conclusion and numerical support does the report give, under which hypotheses and assumptions? measurement
2. Which alternative relationships, specimen limitations or unresolved conditions does the report address or leave open? boundary

Contextual legal status

Record the relevant jurisdiction, date, authority and cited basis for legal paternity, leaving unverified legal effects unresolved.

1. Which jurisdiction and time govern the claimed legal father status? boundary
2. What applicable rule, acknowledgement, record or decision supports recognition, and what effect does its source actually establish? provenance

Paternity status transitions

Record dated recognition and contestation events, distinguishing a request to change status from a completed change.

1. Which events established, challenged, affirmed or changed recognition, and when did each take effect? provenance
2. What authoritative evidence is still needed before the agent may treat a requested status change as effective? action

Perspective-specific fatherhood

Preserve the child's, asserted father's and other relevant participants' accounts without manufacturing agreement.

1. Who identifies this person as the child's father, and how do they explain that relation? provenance
2. Where do participants disagree about whether the relation is fatherhood or another caregiving or kinship relation? boundary

Enacted father relation

Record care, responsibility and relational continuity as contextual evidence, without imposing a universal behavioural threshold for fatherhood.

1. Which practices and commitments are treated as evidence of fatherhood in this family or community? definition
2. Over what period and from whose observations are those practices documented? measurement

Typed paternity disagreement

Compare claims by pair, meaning, context and date before treating them as inconsistent.

1. Do the conflicting statements concern the same child, person, meaning of paternity, context and time? boundary
2. What evidence could resolve the actual disagreement, and which aspects must remain explicitly unresolved? action

Purpose-specific paternity use

Record why paternity information is needed and verify the basis for any disclosure, referral or consequential action.

1. Which meaning and level of recognition of paternity does the proposed action require, and what source establishes that requirement? action
2. Who may access or disclose the relevant paternity information for this purpose, and what establishes that permission? action

Check these first

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these check these first hold for the sense of paternity this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Kinds and varieties

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of paternity this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Real-world use

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of paternity this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Typical measurements

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of paternity this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Failure modes and hazards

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of paternity this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Regional variation

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of paternity this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of paternity this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance