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Paternity fraud is where individuals or companies set out to deceive other individuals, companies or agencies of the Government in order to gain some form of benefit.   It is not merely, as some sources would have you believe, when a man has been entrapped or duped unfairly by an unscrupulous woman - men perpetrate [...]

Even though it is now possible to do a prenatal paternity test using only the mother’s blood - and samples from the alleged father(s) - to determine the paternity of the child as early as 13 weeks into the pregnancy official guideance is against this practice.
In a letter to the Dept of Health dated 26th [...]

Illegal immigrants to be DNA tested under new crackdown in France
Daily Mail, UK - 26 Jan 2009
By Peter Allen France’s hard-line new immigration minister is set to implement legislation that would allow DNA testing of new arrivals, he has said. …