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10-15-2007, 04:50 PM
The Children and Youth Court of Appeals of the National District has ruled on a new process towards recognition of biological parents, and ruled against the right to refuse a DNA test to verify paternity. The court based its opinion on the more important of several constitutional guarantees: the pre-eminent right of identity; the right of proof and the higher interests of the child. The three-judge panel ordered that a child's alleged father must take the DNA test in order to prove or disprove paternity. The alleged father had refused to take the test on the grounds that it violated his constitutional right to privacy of identity.

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