DNA Paternity Test

All About A Legal DNA Paternity Test

It is the basic tenet of legal proceedings: conclusions are established by evidence. Many decades ago, establishing the filiation or non-filiation between a parent and a child was dependent on testimonies and circumstantial evidence on the matter. And though, generally speaking, both classifications of evidence are week in court procedures, they are nevertheless rendered strong because of the lack of other evidence that can prove the same conclusion.

Nowadays, with the giant strides that modern technology has made in the field of medicine and DNA study, a Legal DNA paternity Test has become the standard by which parentage is proven or unproven.

Indeed, the law is now capacitated to determine whether or not a parent is indeed the parent of child, or whether or not a child is indeed the child of the parent. Filiation is written in blood, after all, or in the DNA strand to be more precise Legal DNA Paternity Testing is an accepted standard of proving filiation in the following cases:

• Establishing the legitimate or natural filiation of the child with the parent for the purpose of assuming successional rights;
  
• Establishing the legitimate or natural filiation of the child with the parent for the purpose of eligibility for child support;
  
• Establishing the legitimate or natural filiation of the child with the parent for the purpose of determining any surviving issues that will be carried over from a dissolved marriage;
  
• Establishing the legitimate or natural filiation of the child with the parent to determine mitigating circumstances in crimes involving family members;
  
• Establishing the legitimate or natural filiation of the child with the parent to determine aggravating circumstances in crimes involving family members; and
  
• Establishing the non-filiation of a parent with the child to establish fraud that will invalidate the marriage. This is the trickiest to prove, since what is sought to be established is the concealment of the wife that she has been impregnated by another man. Such a fact can be used to prove the vitiation of consent or infidelity, both of which are grounds for the termination of the marriage.

For a Legal DNA Paternity Test to be acceptable in court, it must be conducted by a duly accredited DNA testing service.

A Home DNA Test, personally conducted is not acceptable as evidence because they is a high likelihood that such were not expertly carried out, which would affect their accuracy, or worse, such may have been tampered with.

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dads not only ones wanting tests - The Australian

dads not only ones wanting tests
The Australian, Australia - Nov 13, 2008
"He would not pay for or take a (paternity) test." She claimed it took nine months of stressful legal action to obtain a court order demanding the man take ...

Fathers 'disrupt debate on DNA' - The Australian

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Fathers 'disrupt debate on DNA'
The Australian, Australia - Nov 11, 2008
"I don't believe it's necessary to obtain consent for paternity testing," said Sue Price co-director of the lobby group Men's Rights Agency. ...
Paternity tests prove hundreds of men duped Melbourne Herald Sun
DNA traps mums' lies Herald Sun
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Paternity-test request declined - Winston-Salem Journal (registration)

Paternity-test request declined
Winston-Salem Journal (registration), NC - Nov 12, 2008
The panel also asked for permission for the paternity test from Bud and Edna Hoisington, Jill Marker's parents and legal guardians. ...

Push for jail terms for theft of DNA - The Australian

Push for jail terms for theft of DNA
The Australian, Australia - Nov 10, 2008
Liam Magill, who was awarded damages of $70000 in 2001 after DNA paternity testing proved a family friend was the biological father of his two youngest ...