| | Note that no provision is explicitly made for court-ordered | testing of maternal relatives because the establishment of | paternity by genetic testing is in no way dependent on testing | the mother of the child. However, if maternity is at issue, §106, | Determination of Maternity, directs that this section be | construed to test the relatives of the mother. |
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| §1909.__Deceased individual |
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| | For good cause shown, the court may order genetic testing of a | deceased individual. |
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| | (This is section 509 of the UPA.) |
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| | In some states, the court with jurisdiction to adjudicate | parentage may lack authority to order disinterment of a deceased | individual. If so, that authority is provided by this section. |
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| §1910.__Identical brothers |
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| | 1.__Genetic testing of brother.__The court may order genetic | testing of a brother of a man identified as the father of a child | if the man is commonly believed to have an identical brother and | evidence suggests that the brother may be the genetic father of | the child. |
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| | 2.__Nongenetic evidence.__If each brother satisfies the | requirements as the identified father of the child under section | 1905 without consideration of another identical brother being | identified as the father of the child, the court may rely on | nongenetic evidence to adjudicate which brother is the father of | the child. |
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| | (This is section 510 of the UPA.) |
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| | This section refers to "identical brothers" rather than | "identical twins" to account for the possibility of identical | triplets, etc. In some cases, non-identical brothers (and even | other related men) will not be excluded after initial genetic | testing. This section should not be used to resolve those cases | because more sophisticated genetic testing can differentiate | between non-identical siblings. If a case occurs in which, after | initial testing, two men are not excluded, both men should be | ordered to submit to additional testing as provided in § 505(c) | to determine which is the father. In the extremely rare case in | which a competent laboratory exhausts all of its in-house testing |
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