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Differing paternity tests

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DC1377

Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? OHIO

I took a court ordered paternity test through a lab in 1999 that came back negative. The boy (Now 25) asked me if I would be willing to take another test as his mother has been telling him his whole life that I was the only possible person that could be his father. I obliged because I wanted to give him closure. Well, the test this time (Again done at a lab) came back positive. How can this even be possible and which test do I believe? I am extremely confused.

Also could I be under any legal or financial obligations? The original paternity suit was dismissed with prejudice in 2000.
 


Just Blue

Just Blue

Senior Member
DC1377 said:
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? OHIO

I took a court ordered paternity test through a lab in 1999 that came back negative. The boy (Now 25) asked me if I would be willing to take another test as his mother has been telling him his whole life that I was the only possible person that could be his father. I obliged because I wanted to give him closure. Well, the test this time (Again done at a lab) came back positive. How can this even be possible and which test do I believe? I am extremely confused.

Also could I be under any legal or financial obligations? The original paternity suit was dismissed with prejudice in 2000.
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Testing is more advanced now.
 
Zigner

Zigner

Senior Member, Non-Attorney
DC1377 said:
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? OHIO

I took a court ordered paternity test through a lab in 1999 that came back negative. The boy (Now 25) asked me if I would be willing to take another test as his mother has been telling him his whole life that I was the only possible person that could be his father. I obliged because I wanted to give him closure. Well, the test this time (Again done at a lab) came back positive. How can this even be possible and which test do I believe? I am extremely confused.

Also could I be under any legal or financial obligations? The original paternity suit was dismissed with prejudice in 2000.
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It is highly unlikely that you'll have any legal/financial obligations. I won't say there is zero chance, but it's just about as close to zero as you can hope for.

It's a shame that you and the man missed out on the father/son relationship.
 
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DC1377

Junior Member
Thank you all for the quick replies. I am still a little confused about the negative test in 2000, but I'm really not in the right mindset to think about it too much right now.

It is a shame that I missed out on 25 years - The ex contacted me about 10 years ago asking me to take the test again, but I thought she was crazy. The kid is grown now with his own family, not much interest in me other than knowing he has a father out there. Pretty sad, but I guess I can understand.

Maybe in time.
 
Zigner

Zigner

Senior Member, Non-Attorney
DC1377 said:
Thank you all for the quick replies. I am still a little confused about the negative test in 2000, but I'm really not in the right mindset to think about it too much right now.
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It's unfortunate, but as was mentioned above, modern tests are much more reliable than those from the '90's.
 
Zigner

Zigner

Senior Member, Non-Attorney
wavehopper27 said:
So, you are suggesting that in Ohio, a child support order can be established when the "child" is 25 years old where no order existed previously?
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No, the contention is with your statement that CS can't be retroactive. In THIS situation it wouldn't be.
 
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DC1377

Junior Member
So I just compared the recent test with the '00 test. There was only one common marker on both tests (FGA). In '00, my marker was a 22, now it's 20. The child's was consistent on both 20,24. Also, his mother was part of the '00 test and her FGA marker was 20.

Does this sound strange? I really want to know the truth, but something just isn't sitting right with me.
 
Zigner

Zigner

Senior Member, Non-Attorney
DC1377 said:
So I just compared the recent test with the '00 test. There was only one common marker on both tests (FGA). In '00, my marker was a 22, now it's 20. The child's was consistent on both 20,24. Also, his mother was part of the '00 test and her FGA marker was 20.

Does this sound strange? I really want to know the truth, but something just isn't sitting right with me.
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If you had no matching markers, then they would have come back with a negative match.
 
LdiJ

LdiJ

Senior Member
DC1377 said:
So I just compared the recent test with the '00 test. There was only one common marker on both tests (FGA). In '00, my marker was a 22, now it's 20. The child's was consistent on both 20,24. Also, his mother was part of the '00 test and her FGA marker was 20.

Does this sound strange? I really want to know the truth, but something just isn't sitting right with me.
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You can always have the test done one more time...assuming the adult child would be willing.
 
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