Paternity

Citing Lower Court Error, Child Paternity Ruling Reversed

By Law.com on 01/10/2019 \”… A support magistrate in Manhattan’s Family Court acted outside the scope of her statutory authority by resolving “issues of contested paternity involving claims of equitable estoppel” and, as a result, the magistrate’s judgment that a man is the father of a child must be reversed, a state appeals court has ruled. […]

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\’No Part Of Me Ever Questioned My Paternity\’: The DNA Test That Upended Identity

By Wbur on 01/31/2019 \”…It started innocently enough. A \”yeah, sure\” to her husband’s suggestion of taking a commercial DNA test. The kind advertised on TV offering a \”more complete story of you\” after you spit into a vial and drop it in the mailbox. …\” Read the entire article: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/01/31/dna-ancestry-test-dani-shapiro-inheritance info

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Mumbai: Man questions ‘paternity’ of the child in court, says wife neither man nor woman

By Free Press Journal on 04/23/2019 \”… In an unique case, a wife has refused to live with her husband after he dragged her to Bombay High Court claiming she is neither a man nor a woman. The man had initially refused to acknowledge his own child, claiming there was never any physical relationship between the

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A Pregnant Woman in Missouri Spent 39 Days in Jail for Refusing to Make Her Kids Take a Paternity Test

By Jezebel on 4/20/2019 \”…According to the Appeal, Adrianna Thurman was carted off to jail in October of last year, when she was deemed in contempt of the St. Louis County Family Court for refusing to submit her two children to a paternity test requested by her ex-boyfriend. …\” Read the entire article: https://jezebel.com/a-pregnant-woman-in-missouri-spent-39-days-in-jail-for-1834190773 info

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Parents of dead West Point cadet want to retrieve his sperm — raising ethical and legal questions

By Nelson Oliviera – NY Daily News 03/11/2019 \”… When a 21-year-old West Point cadet died after a skiing accident last month, his grieving parents said they couldn’t endure being “left without any piece” of their only son. They decided they wanted more than a piece: They wanted a grandchild. …\” Read the entire article: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-parents-sperm-retrieve-20190305-story.html  info

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