Apex court rules teenager cannot be forced to undergo DNA test to determine paternity

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PUTRAJAYA: A married couple won their appeal in the Federal Court to set aside a Court of Appeal ruling to compel a teenager to undergo a Deoxyribonuc...

: A married couple won their appeal in the Federal Court to set aside a Court of Appeal ruling to compel a teenager to undergo a Deoxyribonucleic acid test to determine her paternity.

“The very act of making C do the DNA test is in itself damaging, disrupting her status quo and putting into question the only reality she has known for the past 15 and half years that D1 and D2 are her parents. “When dealing with fragile familial structure, the judiciary should not be a forerunner that sets social trends and ignores the pitfalls and legal implications of its decision in the absence of clear legislative provisions.

The man claimed that he and the girl’s mother were involved in an extramarital affair during that period which only ended in 2014.

 

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