paternity Testing

1. What is paternity testing and what is its purpose?
2. Is a child born during the marriage automatically assumed to be the child of the parents?
3. Does a court have the authority to order a person to undergo DNA testing?
4. How much DNA evidence is required to prove paternity?
5. If the alleged father is not available for testing, how can paternity be established?
6. If identical brothers each test as being the biological father, how can the court make a determination of paternity?
7. If a man’s name appears on the child’s birth certificate, does that conclusively establish him as a child’s father?
8. Is there a time period within which a presumed father must bring an action to disprove that he is the child’s father?
9. If there is no presumed, acknowledged or adjudicated father, is there a time limit to bring an action to adjudicate parentage?
10. Can the Court deny a motion for genetic testing to determine the parentage of a child?

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