House bill to rework paternity timeline advances in Senate

BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana Senate will consider whether to expand the length of time a man has to challenge his paternity after a child's birth.
    
Current law grants Louisianians one year to contest paternity from the time they learn of the birth. But a Senate judiciary committee advanced a proposal Tuesday without objection to begin that time period once a person learns the child may not be his.
    
Rep. Patrick Jefferson, a Homer Democ