Legal Paternity Testing

"I might need it for court"

If you don't have a court date and have not been advised by an attorney that you need a legally admissible test, you may want to choose the $100 personal paternity test. It is not likely to hold up in court but will provide you with the truth about the relationships in your case. Both the legal and the non-legal are identical when it comes to the actual DNA test. The only way the two differ is in the method of collecting your DNA.

If you find that you are the father, you may want to concede to paternity when in court and avoid court fees for DNA testing, which can be as high as $1000-1500. If you find you are not the father, you can take a second paternity test through the court and pay the higher court fee and you will have wasted only $99 without wondering if the test will be admissible.

Be Aware: Not All "Legal Tests" Are The Same

To make a test legally admissible in court, your samples must be collected by an independent third party. This establishes what is known as the chain of custody where your samples can be tracked and documented throughout the process. In order to preserve the chain of custody all collections of samples must have been performed or witnessed by a competent collector with no interest in the test outcome. This disqualifies spouses, children of the person being tested, other family members, friends and any person having any relationship to any of the persons being tested. It is also expected that the competent collector has packaged and transferred the samples to the laboratory. At no time can the collection kit be in the sole un-witnessed possession of the person who is to be tested.

WARNING: If another company is willing to send a collection kit directly to you and tells you to use an uninterested person to witness the collection, your DNA test will not likely hold up in court.

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IMPORTANT: After you send your prepared collection kit to DNAsbook at the above address, email the confirmation page you found at the end of your payment or the confirmation email sent to your email by PayPal, to dnaprofiles@dnasbook.com . This is very important because through response to this email you are going to receive your DNA profile results in a secure and password-protected email. Then make sure you are the only one having access to this email.