Medical and Legal Developments in Paternity Testing

New Use of Blood Test is Decisive in Paternity Suits, The New York Times, June 2, 1981, at 1A.

Terasaki P.I. , Resolution by HLA Testing of 100 Paternity Cases Not Excluded by ABO Testing, Journal of Family Law 16(3):543–57 (1977–78).

U.S. Dept. Health and Human Services, Office of Child Support Enforcement, Techniques of Effective Management of Program Operations (Tempo #4) (April 15, 1980) introduction.

U.S. Dept. Health, Education and Welfare, Office of Child Support Enforcement, Blood Testing to Establish Paternity (July 15, 1977) at 2.

42 U.S.C.A. §602(a)(26)(B)(i) (1976).

Levy v. Louisiana. 391 U.S. 68 (1968).

A review of the cases can be found in State Deportment of Health and Rehabilitative Services, ex rel. Gillespie v. West. 378 So.2d 1220, 1222 (Fla. 1979) [hereinafter Gillespie].

Klein R. , Putative Fathers: Unwed, But No Longer Unprotected, Hofstra Law Review 8(2):425–29 (Winter 1980).

Judge Rules Against Mother: Unwed Dad Keeps Child, National Law Journal, December 8, 1980.

Paternity Testing With The Human Leucocyte Antigen System: A Medicolegal Breakthrough, Santa Clara Law Review 20:511 (1980) at 516, 525.

See, e.g., Ill. Pub. Act 81-1445 (approved September 4, 1980, effective January 1, 1981); Wis. Ch. 352, Sen. Bill 249 (pub. May 21, 1980, eff. July 1, 1981).

See, e.g., Ky. Rev. Stat. §406.111.

Twardy S. , Blood Groups in Bastardy, Paternity, Heredity and Criminal Cases, Medical Trial Technique Quarterly (1976 Annual) at 317; Joint AMA-ABA Guidelines: Present Status of Serologic Testing in Problems of Disputed Parentage. Family Law Quarterly 10(3):247–85 (Fall 1976); Beautyman M.J. , Paternity Actions – A Matter of Opinion or a Trial of the Blood? Legal Medicine Annual: 1976, ed. Wecht Cyril H. (Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York) at 239; Power T.H. , The Use of Blood Tests to Prove Paternity in California, University of San Francisco Law Review 3(2):297–319 (April 1969). But see Jaffee R. , Comment on the Judicial Use of HLA Paternity Test Results and Other Statistical Evidence: A Response to Terasaki, Journal of Family Law 17(3):457–85 (1978–79).

Ellman I.M. Kay D. , Probabilities and Proof: Can HLA and Blood Group Testing Prove Paternity? New York University Law Review 54(4):1131 (1979).

See, e.g., Frye v. United States, 293 F. 1013 (D.C. Cir. 1923).

Ford D.S. , Blood Groups and Parentage, Medical Journal of Australia (January 13, 1979) at 29; Joint AMA-ABA Guidelines, supra note 13; Rose E.F. , Medicolegal Aspects of Paternity Testing, American Journal of Medical Technology 45:152 (1979).

J.B. v. A.F., 285 N.W.2d 880 (Wis. App. 1979); Cardenas v. Chavez, 103 Mich. App. 646 (1980).

Cramer v. Morrison, 153 Cal. Rptr. 865 (Cal App. 1979).

Tuinstra v. Chorley, 7 Family Law Reporter 2069 (Cir. Ct., Kent Cty., Mich. November 11, 1980); Camden County Board of Social Services v. Kellner, 6 Family Law Reporter 2412 (Juv. Dom. Rel. Ct., N.J. 1980). This court cited, in addition to the two reasons previously mentioned, “the best interests of the child;” Miller v. Smith, 6 Family Law Reporter 2660 (Cir. Ct. Cook Cty., Ill., 1980). This court stated that for the legislature to exclude from the courts that which proves the truth of the case would amount to an unconstitutional legislative intrusion upon the judicial function. J.H. v. M.H., 177 N.J. Super. 436 (1981). The court stated that a statute passed in 1939 could not have been intended to preclude the use of new scientific evidence discovered later; Carlyon v. Weeks, 6 Family Law Reporter 2850 (Fla. App. 1980).

Phillips v. Jackson (Supreme Court of Utah, July 22, 1980) (unreported).

Cardenas v. Chavez, supra note 17.

Little v. Streater, 49 U.S.L.W. 4581 (June 2, 1981).

Lurry v. Mills. 377 A.2d 804 (N.J. 1977); Franklin v. District Court of the 10th Judicial District in and for the County of Pueblo, 571 P.2d 1072 (Colo. 1977); In re Moore v. Astor, 102 Misc. 2d 472 (Family Court, Westchester Cty, N.Y., 1980); Michael B. v. Superior Court of Stanislaus County, 150 Cal. Rptr. 586 (Cal. App. 1978); Walker v. Stokes, 344 N.E.2d 159 (Ohio App. 1975); Lascaris v. Lardeo, 100 Misc. 2d 220 (Family Ct., Onondaga County, N. Y., 1979); M. v. S., 169 N.J. Super. 209 (1979).

Cardenas v. Chavez, supra note 17.

Washington v. Meacham, 6 Family Law Reporter 2623 (Wash. 1980).

Id.

Thompson v. Thompson, 390 A.2d 1139 (Md. App. 1978).

Id. at 1144.

Gillespie , supra note 7.

Cogdell v. Johnson (North Carolina Court of Appeals, April 15, 1979) (unreported).

Commonwealth ex rel. Atkins v. Singleton, 422 A.2d 1347 (Pa. Super. 1980).

Marticorena v. Miller (Supreme Court of Utah, July 11, 1979) (unreported).

DeWeese v. Unick, 162 Cal. Rptr. 259 (Cal. App. 1980); Hayward v. Hansen, (Wash. App. May 21, 1981) (unreported); Commonwealth v. Blazo, 6 Family Law Reporter 2815 (Mass App. 1980); Hrouda v. Winne, 432 N.Y.S.2d 643 (App. Div. 1980) (dictum; the court stated it lacked jurisdiction to reopen the judgment).

Wessels v. Swanson, 6 Family Law Reporter 2146 (Minn. 1979).

Hanson v. Hanson. 3 Family Law Reporter 2196 (Minn. 1976); People v. Askew, 393 N.E.2d 1124 (Ill. App. 1979); In re Self, 6 Family Law Reporter 2312 (N.Y. Fam. Ct., Rensselaer County, 1980).

Marsters W. , A Summary of the Current Status of State Laws Regarding Paternity Testing: January-February, 1981 Update (unpublished). See Ill. Pub. Act 81-1445, supra note 11; Iowa H.F. 2516, eff. Jan. 1, 1981; N.C. Gen. Stat. §8-50.1; Wis. Ch. 352, supra note 11.

Joint AMA-ABA Guidelines, supra note 13, at 283.