[Lisa Owens]

In TENNESSEE if DNA testing proves your not the father, Can the court make/order you pay Child Support? Answer needed ASAP PLEASE

[AK lawyer]

This thread belongs in the Family Law section.

Were you married to the mother at the time the child was born? Did you ever acknowledge paternity?

[J_9]

Moved and retitled.

[GV70]

In TENNESSEE if DNA testing proves your not the father, Can the court make/order you pay Child Support? Answer needed ASAP PLEASE

Tn moved its legislation and if DNA test shows the man is not the father,he will be free from his child support obligation.

[Fr_Chuck]

But the DNA test will have to be from a approved lab, and it will have to be presented to the court.

[GV70]

Synopsis of Coppage v Green /.COURT OF APPEALS OF TENNESSEE/

The child at issue was born in 1990.
In 1997, the juvenile court entered an order establishing the petitioner as the child’s father. Eight years later, the petitioner took an independent DNA test which indicated that he was not the child’s biological father. The petitioner then filed a petition to disestablish his parentage of the child, attaching the results of the independent DNA test to his petition. After a hearing, the juvenile court referee recommended court-approved DNA testing to prove or disprove the petitioner’s parentage.
This recommendation was confirmed by the juvenile court judge. The respondent mother filed a motion for a rehearing before the juvenile court judge. The motion was granted. After a rehearing, the juvenile court judge dismissed the petitioner’s petition for court-ordered DNA testing to determine parentage. The petitioner now appeals. We reverse, determining that relief should be granted under these circumstances, and remand to the trial court for further proceedings

[GV70]

I found it very interesting:
Tn 36-2-309. Tests to determine parentage

(b) The state of Tennessee, its officers, employees, agents or contractors shall not be liable to any person for, nor be ordered to refund to any person, any moneys received pursuant to an order entered pursuant to this part that is subsequently set aside by the court due to a finding of non-paternity of the person previously adjudicated as the child's father. Nothing in this subsection (b) shall preclude the issuance of a judgment against the mother or actual biological father of the child or children in favor of the person subsequently found not to be the father of a child or children.