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The Maryland Statute
5-1029. Blood or genetic tests.
(a) Requests and orders for tests.-
(1) The Administration may request the mother, child, and
alleged father to submit to blood or genetic tests.
(2) If the mother, child, or alleged father fails to comply
with the request of the Administration, the Administration may
apply to the circuit court for an order that directs the
individual to submit to the tests.
(b) In general.- On the motion of the Administration, a party
to the proceeding, or on its own motion, the court shall order the
mother, child, and alleged father to submit to blood or genetic
tests to determine whether the alleged father can be excluded as
being the father of the child.
(c) Approved laboratory required.- The blood or genetic tests
shall be made in a laboratory selected by the court from a list of
laboratories provided by the Administration.
(d) Form of results.- The laboratory shall report the results
of each blood or genetic test in writing and in the form the court
requires.
(e) Copy of laboratory report.- A copy of the laboratory report
of the blood or genetic test shall be provided to the parties or
their counsel in the manner that the court directs.
(f) Laboratory report as evidence.-
(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (3) of this
subsection, the laboratory report of the blood or genetic test
shall be received in evidence if:
(i) definite exclusion is established; or
(ii) the testing is sufficiently extensive to exclude 97.3%
of alleged fathers who are not biological fathers, and the
statistical probability of the alleged father's paternity is
at least 97.3%.
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