I think you could argue against the Feds requiring a paternity test on privacy or state's rights, maybe some other grounds.
But what it should be anyway is a requirement to get child support.
It's functionally the same thing because if they're married the father can just have the test done, or if he has custody (lol), or if the divorced mother with custody refuses then it's not his.
I like that the best. Mandatory DNA seems to intrusive, but in a child support case it's just evidence to prove you are responsible for a debt. It's like a receipt or a contract. I don't know if that could be made federally either though, isn't child support a state issue?
DNA tests for support cases are easy enough, at least here in Texas. The problem lies in situations where the guy has been acting in the father capacity for years and only later does it come to light that he’s not the bio dad. Courts will say too bad, it’s more important that the child have a father. That’s how mandatory DNA testing fixes this issue.
Their only argument against it is literally:
Which any grown adult knows is the exact line that someone cheating or lying uses immediately.
I think you could argue against the Feds requiring a paternity test on privacy or state's rights, maybe some other grounds.
But what it should be anyway is a requirement to get child support.
It's functionally the same thing because if they're married the father can just have the test done, or if he has custody (lol), or if the divorced mother with custody refuses then it's not his.
I like that the best. Mandatory DNA seems to intrusive, but in a child support case it's just evidence to prove you are responsible for a debt. It's like a receipt or a contract. I don't know if that could be made federally either though, isn't child support a state issue?
DNA tests for support cases are easy enough, at least here in Texas. The problem lies in situations where the guy has been acting in the father capacity for years and only later does it come to light that he’s not the bio dad. Courts will say too bad, it’s more important that the child have a father. That’s how mandatory DNA testing fixes this issue.