line of cases beginning with Ex parte Presse, 554 So.2d 406 (Ala.1989), Alabama appellate courts have held that no one has standing to challenge a presumed father’s parentage “so long as the presumed father persists in maintaining his paternal status.” 554 So.2d at 418 (emphasis added). See B.N.P. v. D.M.P., 896 So.2d 505, 509 (Ala.Civ.App.2004) (stating that a child “does not have standing under the AUPA to challenge the presumed father’s paternity so long as [the presumed father] persists in claiming paternity”). See also J.O.J. v. R.R., 895 So.2d 336 (Ala.Civ.App.2004); M.H.E. v. B.E., 864 So.2d 351 (Ala.Civ.App.2002); Hooten v. Hooten, 754 So.2d 634, 635 (Ala.Civ.App.1999); and Ex parte C.A.P., 683 So.2d 1010, 1011 (Ala.1996). Cf. D.S.M. v. L.M., 854 So.2d 1140 (Ala.Civ.App.2002) (<HOLDING>). Steven, however, did not present the
holding that the presumption of legitimacy shifts the burden of persuasion to the putative father to establish that he did not father the child holding that a child was not barred by a former statute of limitations applicable to actions to establish the existence of a father and child relationship when the current action was to establish the nonexistence of a father and child relationship and the presumed father no longer persisted in maintaining paternity holding that the trial court had erred in imposing an obligation to pay child support when clear and convincing evidence established that the husband was not the father of the child holding that woman was presumed mother under uniform parentage acts upa provision presuming paternity based upon receiving the child into ones home and holding out child as ones own where upa expressly provides that in determining the existence of a mother and child relationship insofar as practicable the provisions of this part applicable to the father and child relationship apply quotation and brackets omitted holding that the natural father must have established a substantial relationship with the child to merit constitutional protection