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1: Everything you need to know about Paternity tests | October 8, 2019

MORE families are taking steps to confirm their children’s parentage but it doesn’t have to be a harrowing experience…

Catchwords: Australian Family Law Act, Biological Father, Parentage, Parental Rights, Paternity Tests


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2: High Court agrees sperm donor is father as he was involved in girl’s life | June 19, 2019

The High Court has found a man who donated his sperm to a lesbian friend to have a child is the father, due to his involvement in the child’s life…

Catchwords: Biological Father, Biological Mother, Birth Mother, Court Decision, Equal Shared Parental Responsibility, Family Law Act, Fatherhood, In Vitro Fertilisation, Legal Proceedings, Parentage, Parentage and the Family Law Act, Parental Conflict, Parental Rights, Paternity, Precedent, Reproductive Medical Assistance, Same Sex Parents, Same Sex Parents, Same-Sex Parenting, Spends time with, Sperm Donation, Substantial and Significant Time


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3: Lesbian divorcees in modern age dispute over embryos | June 12, 2019

A woman has asked the Family Court to order the destruction of 12 embryos — even though she has no genetic link to them…

Catchwords: Biological Mother, Donor-Conceived Children, In Vitro Fertilisation, Legal definition of an unborn child, Legal definition of an unborn child, Medical Decisions, Parentage, Parental Rights, Parents refused to consent, Pregnancy, Reproductive Medical Assistance, Same Sex Parents, State based Sperm Donor Legislation


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4: High Court to decide if a sperm donor can be a parent | April 16, 2019

Legally speaking who is a parent? It’s not a straight forward question for blended families, LGTBQI families, indigenous families with strong traditional kinship ties and children born via surrogacy or sperm or egg donation. The High Court of Australia is to hear a case commenced by a sperm donor known as Robert…

Catchwords: Biological Father, Biological Mother, Same Sex Parents, Sperm Donation


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5: Identical twins both pay child support after inconclusive paternity test | April 9, 2019

Identical twin brothers liked impersonating each other to sleep with lots of women. Now, both of their names will go on one baby’s birth certificate…

Catchwords: Biological Father, Child Support Dispute, Legal Proceedings, Parentage, Paternity Tests, Pregnancy


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6: DNA test proves man who paid $58k in child support isn’t the dad | March 3, 2019

A MAN who was paying child support for almost 20 years, says he wants his $58k back after finding out he isn’t the father…

Catchwords: Biological Mother, Child Support, Child Support Agency, Child Support Dispute, Child Support Enforcement, Deceit, Parentage, Paternity, Paternity Fraud


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7: Dad wins $500k after wife lied about paternity of their 3 children | March 2, 2019

A man has successfully sued his ex-wife after discovering she’d lied to him for more than two decades. But the cost of the truth has proved bigger than his bank balance…

Catchwords: Biological Mother, Family Law Courts, Infidelity, Parentage, Precedent


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8: DNA orders in Family Provision Act Proceedings | October 1, 2013

However, courts have been slower to order the use of the science in other civil proceedings, for example claims against deceased estates, where testing can determine eligibility within Family Provision Act proceedings…

Catchwords: DNA Testing, Family Provision, Intestacy Laws, Wills


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9: Landmark federal ruling in custody battle involving IVF mum and her ex | June 18, 2013

A Family Court judge has awarded a man equal shared parental responsibility of a two-year-old boy he fathered as a sperm donor, in a landmark ruling. The decision was handed down despite despite Victorian law stating that sperm donors are not to be considered the father, because the father and child had already formed a bond with the approval of the mother…

Catchwords: Biological Father, Donor-Conceived Children, Equal Shared Parental Responsibility, In Vitro Fertilisation, Parentage, Parental Responsibility Orders, Parental Rights, Shared Parental Responsibility Amendment 2006, Sperm Donation, State based Sperm Donor Legislation


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10: Support urged for paternity tests | April 23, 2013

A WAVE of almost 800 cases in which men were found to be financially supporting children they did not father has prompted calls for counselling to be compulsory, and partly subsidised, whenever family DNA tests are conducted…

Catchwords: Counselling, Parentage, Parental, Paternity, Paternity Fraud, Paternity Tests, Research

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