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Determine the paternity of the child through genetic testing

Determining The Biological Father

In a marriage between a man and a woman, there may come a time when the husband wants to determine with certainty that the child the marriage produced was the result of the married couple and not a third party.

Paternity litigation can be initiated by the mother seeking child support or by the father seeking fatherhood. Such cases are usually resolved by genetic testing.

A lawsuit to determine the identity of a child’s biological father through DNA testing, which is 99.9 percent accurate, is the quickest and least expensive means to establish paternity.

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