What if I need a formal court admissible test after using the home DNA test. Fill out this form and a case manager will contact you. Statistics show that a formal test is rarely required. When the involved parties discover and accept the results, expensive follow-on court action for a paternity test is usually not required. Contact your attorney for more information.
Paternity means fatherhood.
Paternity is established when a paternity testing laboratory uses genetic testing methods to demonstrate, to a legal standard, that an alleged father is the biological father. Paternity is disproved when these same methods and standards demonstrate that an alleged father is not the biological father. The lab requires 2 weeks to complete the test unless there is a complication such as a rare gene. The results are then mailed to you which adds a few additional days. If you test has to be sent back to testing due to complications, it could take an additional 10 days.