Delaware Code Title 13 Sec. 8-622 – Consequences of declining genetic testing
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(a) An order for genetic testing is enforceable by contempt.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 13 Sec. 8-622
- Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
(b) If an individual whose paternity is being determined declines to submit to genetic testing ordered by the court, the court for that reason may adjudicate parentage contrary to the position of that individual.
(c) Genetic testing of the mother of a child is not a condition precedent to testing the child and a man whose paternity is being determined. If the mother is unavailable or declines to submit to genetic testing, the court may order the testing of the child and every man whose paternity is being adjudicated.