The decision, made by Judge Sandra Jackson, was handed down after a roughly hour long hearing Feb. 19, when attorneys for both Jones and the woman, Alexandra Davis, argued whether she had a presumed ...

Determining the paternity of a child was once a very complicated process, involving intrusive blood tests and many weeks of laboratory analysis. The accuracy of the results could also be questionable, ...

INDEPENDENT studies conducted between 2014 and 2019 indicate that well over 32,8% of men are being compelled, through court orders, to maintain children who are not biologically their own. This ...

When Nara Milanich wrote Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father—a history of the scientific, legal, and social conceptions of fatherhood in Western civilization—she wasn’t expecting that her ...

My son was born as a result of my affair with Joshua. His birth was registered, but the local civil registrar refused to indicate the name of the father because my child was not recognized. I have ...

Bengaluru: The Kalaburagi bench of theKarnatak high court has declined to cancel a DNA test order in a paternity dispute, stating that the test is crucial for resolving the claim of a schoolteacher ...

Washington hairdresser Andre Chreky gladly agreed to a DNA test when a former employee hit him with a paternity suit. The claim was absurd, Chreky said he remembers thinking. He had stopped dating the ...

The government is set to roll out non-invasive prenatal paternity tests, available from as early as six to eight weeks of pregnancy by January 2026, to strengthen the fight against sexual violence and ...