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Presumption Junction, What’S That Function: Louisiana Marriage And Parenthood Laws Post-Obergefell, Laura Tracy

Louisiana Law Review

The article proposes that the redrafting of article 185 of the Louisiana Civil Code would ensure that filiation laws are constitutionally sound under the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges and guarantee that children of same-sex couples are given equitable standards under the law.

Genetic Profiling And Rules Of Using Thereof In Forensic Medicine And Paternity Suits- Dr. Nasser Abdullah A1-Mayman

UAEU Law Journal

Genetic profiling (DNA fingerprinting) is one of the major developments in contemporary biology. Its introduction has raised such a hue and cry justiö'ing an explanation thereof from a Sharia point of view: definition of genetic profiling, and its viability in forensic medicine and the legal confirmation / negation of paternity.

The paper reaches a number of conclusions confirming that each individual has a unique genetic coding (DNA), with the exception of identical twins. Thus, genetic fingerprinting is an accurate means of differentiating between individuals. It may be used in the criminal field to unmistakably people (in cases other than hodoud, …

Credibility Of Genetic Profiling In Establishing Paternity A Legal Comparative Study, Fwaz Saleh

UAEU Law Journal

Genetic profiling offers a new dimension for the possibility of exploring biological truth. It plays an important role in establishing paternity in Western legislation, though two conflicting trends are apparent in this connection: free and restricted.

In both trends, however, proving the biological truth is not the only objective of the legal rules organizing the establishment of paternity. The present study has also indicated that genetic profiling poses a threat to human rights, especially inviolability of the human body. Scientific evidence would certainly help determine paternity through the use of biologically accurate techniques. In the event of disputed paternity, however, …

Nongendered Childcare Parentage, Jeffrey A. Parness

College of Law Faculty Publications

In the United States today, self-identified women increasingly can become childcare parents without giving birth, without genetic ties, and without formal adoption. Self-identified men increasingly can become childcare parents without marriages to those giving birth, without genetic ties, and without formal adoption. Furthermore, legal parentage more frequently arises other than at birth. Parentage under current law can be founded on preconception acts, on acts occurring during another person's pregnancy, and on acts occurring long after birth to another. Further, parenthood is becoming available to those whose gender self-identity changes and to those who do not gender identify. With the (r)evolution …