North Dakota § 14-20-52 (631) Rules for adjudication of paternity

North Dakota Statutes

§ 14-20-52 — (631) Rules for adjudication of paternity

North Dakota § 14-20-52

Title 14Domestic Relations and Persons

Ch. 14-20Uniform Parentage Act

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N.D. Cent. Code § 14-20-52 (2026).

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The court shall apply the following rules to adjudicate the paternity of a child:

1.The paternity of a child having a presumed, acknowledged, or adjudicated father may be disproved only by admissible results of genetic testing excluding that man as the father of the child or identifying another man as the father of the child.

2.Unless the results of genetic testing are admitted to rebut other results of genetic testing, a man identified as the father of a child under section 14-20-29 must be adjudicated the father of the child.

3.If the court finds that genetic testing under section 14-20-29 neither identifies nor excludes a man as the father of a child, the court may not dismiss the proceeding. In that event, the results of genetic testing, and other evidence, are admissible to adjudic

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The court shall apply the following rules to adjudicate the paternity of a child:
1. The paternity of a child having a presumed, acknowledged, or adjudicated father may
be disproved only by admissible results of genetic testing excluding that man as the
father of the child or identifying another man as the father of the child.
2. Unless the results of genetic testing are admitted to rebut other results of genetic
testing, a man identified as the father of a child under section 14-20-29 must be
adjudicated the father of the child.
3. If the court finds that genetic testing under section 14-20-29 neither identifies nor
excludes a man as the father of a child, the court may not dismiss the proceeding. In
that event, the results of genetic testing, and other evidence, are admissible to
adjudicate the issue of paternity.
4. Unless the results of genetic testing are admitted to rebut other results of genetic
testing, a man excluded as the father of a child by genetic testing must be adjudicated
not to be the father of the child.