---
urn: urn:us-la:rs:9:405
citation: "R.S. 9:405"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 9 › Code Preliminary Title › Code Book I › Code Title VII › Chapter 1 › Part II"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 2006, number: 344, section: 4, effective_date: 2006-06-13, role: enactment }
---

# Legal effect of acknowledgment

In child support, custody, and visitation cases, the acknowledgment of paternity by authentic act is deemed to be a legal finding of paternity and is sufficient to establish an obligation to support the child and to establish visitation without the necessity of obtaining a judgment of paternity.