78B-15-617 - Rules for adjudication of paternity. - Utah Statutes

78B-15-617. Rules for adjudication of paternity.
The tribunal shall apply the following rules to adjudicate the paternity of a child:
(1) The paternity of a child having a presumed, declarant, or adjudicated father may bedisproved only by admissible results of genetic testing excluding that man as the father of thechild or identifying another man as the father of the child.
(2) Unless the results of genetic testing are admitted to rebut other results of genetictesting, a man identified as the father of a child under Section 78B-15-505 must be adjudicatedthe father of the child, unless an exception is granted under Section 78B-15-608.
(3) If the tribunal finds that genetic testing under Section 78B-15-505 neither identifiesnor excludes a man as the father of a child, the tribunal may not dismiss the proceeding. In thatevent, the tribunal shall order further testing.
(4) Unless the results of genetic testing are admitted to rebut other results of genetictesting, a man properly excluded as the father of a child by genetic testing must be adjudicatednot to be the father of the child.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 3, 2008 General Session