PARENTAGE INFORMATION
C.R.S. § 19-1-308. Parentage information.
Notwithstanding any other law concerning public hearings and records, any hearing or trial held under article 4 of this title shall be held in closed court without admittance of any person other than those necessary to the action or proceeding. In addition to access otherwise provided for pursuant to section 19-1-303, all papers and records pertaining to the action or proceeding which are part of the permanent record of the court are subject to inspection by the parties to the action and their attorneys of record, and such parties and their attorneys shall be subject to a court order which shall be in effect against all parties to the action prohibiting such parties from disclosing the genetic testing information contained in the court's record. Such court papers and records shall not be subject to inspection by any person not a party to the action except the state child support enforcement agency or delegate child support enforcement units for the purposes set forth in section 19-1-303 (4.4) or upon consent of the court and all parties to the action, or, in exceptional cases only, upon an order of the court for good cause shown. All papers and records in the custody of the county department of social services shall be available for inspection by the parties to the action only upon the consent of all parties to the action and as provided by section 26-1-114, C.R.S., or by the rules governing discovery, but such papers and records shall not be subject to inspection by any person not a party to the action except upon consent of all parties to the action; except that the results of genetic testing may be provided to all parties, when available, notwithstanding laws governing confidentiality and without the necessity of formal discovery. Any person receiving or inspecting paternity information in the custody of the county department of social services shall be subject to a court order which shall be in effect prohibiting such persons from disclosing the genetic testing information contained in the department's record.
Source: L. 96: Entire part added with relocations, p. 1169, § 6, effective January 1, 1997. L. 2003: Entire section amended, p. 1267, § 57, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section was formerly numbered as 19-1-121.
ANNOTATION
Annotator's note. The following annotations include cases decided under former provisions similar to this section.
Section is intended to protect confidentiality of adoption proceedings against disclosure to third parties and not to protect confidentiality among siblings or parents and, therefore, separate petitions to adopt all four children of deceased natural mother are not required. Hopp v. Patterman, 757 P.2d 164 (Colo. App. 1988).