| | | The court shall apply the following provisions to adjudicate | | the parentage of a child. |
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| | | 1.__Parentage disproved.__The parentage of a child having a | | presumed parent, acknowledged father or adjudicated parent may be | | disproved only by admissible results of genetic testing excluding | | that man as the father of the child or identifying another man as | | the father of the child. |
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| | | 2.__Identified father adjudicated as father.__Unless the | | results of genetic testing are admitted to rebut other results of | | genetic testing, a man identified as the father of a child under | | section 1905 must be adjudicated the father of the child. |
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| | | 3.__Genetic testing not conclusive.__If the court finds that | | genetic testing under section 1905 neither identifies nor | | excludes a man as the father of a child, the court may not | | dismiss the proceeding. In that event, the results of genetic | | testing, and other evidence, are admissible to adjudicate the | | issue of parentage. |
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| | | 4.__Excluded man adjudicated as not father.__Unless the | | results of genetic testing are admitted to rebut other results of | | genetic testing, a man excluded as the father of a child by | | genetic testing must be adjudicated not to be the parent of the | | child. |
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| | | 5.__Inadmissible evidence.__Testimony relating to sexual | | relations or possible sexual relations of the mother at a time | | other than the probable time of conception of the child is | | inadmissible in evidence. |
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| | | (This is section 631 of the UPA.) |
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| | | This section establishes the controlling supremacy of | | admissible genetic test results in the adjudication of paternity. | | Other matters such as statute of limitations, equitable estoppel | | and res judicata may preclude the matter from reaching trial or | | the court denying genetic testing. However, if test results are | | admissible, those results control unless other test results | | create a conflict rebutting the admitted results. |
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| | | Paragraph (3) is included to ensure that the fact a genetic | | test does not reach the 99% level decreed in § 505 will not be | | perceived as an indicator of an exclusion of paternity. Although | | test results that do not reach that level do not create a |
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