Title 15C, Title 15C: Parentage Proceedings

§ 605. Report of genetic testing (a) A report of genetic testing shall be in a record and signed under penalty of perjury by a designee of the testing laboratory. A report made under the requirements of this chapter is self-authenticating. (b) A party in possession of results of …

§ 606. Admissibility of results of genetic testing (a) Production of results; notice. Unless waived by the parties, a party intending to rely on the results of genetic testing shall do all of the following: (1) make the test results available to the other parties to the parentage…

§ 607. Additional genetic testing The court shall order additional genetic testing upon the request of a party who contests the result of the initial testing. If the initial genetic testing identified a person as a genetic parent of the child under section 604 of this title, the …

§ 608. Consequences of declining genetic testing (a) If a person whose parentage is being determined under this chapter declines to submit to genetic testing ordered by the court, the court for that reason may adjudicate parentage contrary to the position of that person. (b) Gene…

§ 609. Adjudication of parentage based on genetic testing (a)(1) If genetic testing results pursuant to section 604 of this title exclude a person as the genetic parent of a child, the court shall find that person is not a genetic parent of the child and may not adjudicate the pe…

§ 610. Costs of genetic testing (a) The costs of initial genetic testing shall be paid: (1) by the Office of Child Support in a proceeding in which the Office is providing services, if the Office requests such testing; (2) as agreed by the parties or, if the parties cannot agree,…

§ 611. Genetic testing when specimens not available (a) If a genetic testing specimen is not available from an alleged genetic parent of a child, for good cause the court may order the following persons to submit specimens for genetic testing: (1) the parents of the alleged genet…

§ 612. Deceased person For good cause shown, the court may order genetic testing of a deceased person. (Added 2017, No. 162 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)

§ 613. Identical sibling (a) The court may order genetic testing of a person who is believed to have an identical sibling if evidence suggests the sibling may be the genetic parent of the child. (b) If more than one sibling is identified as a genetic parent of the child, the cour…

§ 614. Confidentiality of genetic testing (a) A report of genetic testing for parentage is exempt from public inspection and copying under the Public Records Act and shall be kept confidential and released only as provided in this title. (b) A person shall not intentionally relea…

§ 615. Authority to deny requested order for genetic testing or admission of test results (a) Grounds for denial. In a proceeding to adjudicate parentage, the court may deny a motion seeking an order for genetic testing or deny admissibility of the test results at trial if it det…

§ 616. Precluding establishment of parentage by perpetrator of sexual assault (a) In a proceeding in which a person is alleged to have committed a sexual assault that resulted in the birth of a child, the person giving birth may seek to preclude the establishment of the other per…