An act relating to the Vermont Parentage Act

This bill amends Vermont's Parentage Act to strengthen legal protections for surrogacy arrangements and clarify parental rights when parents live separately. It makes surrogacy agreements enforceable if they substantially comply with state requirements, while also ensuring that existing parentage presumptions can be used directly to establish child support without additional proceedings. The legislation repeals outdated "man in the house" provisions and updates definitions to include various types of support orders from different family law contexts. These changes aim to modernize family law procedures to better reflect contemporary family structures and ensure consistent enforcement of parental obligations.