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Infidelity & Paternity - Consent Issues

There are some issues of consent, to be considered, before you make a decision on whether to pursue a "scientific" investigation:

  • if you are considering sending us items of clothing (or any other items) that do not actually belong to you, then you need to get the consent of the "owner" of the item(s) and confirm this in writing to us, before you send in the items. We know that this makes a difficult situation even more difficult, but if you do not gain consent to take items and send them to us, then this could be construed as theft.

  • if you wish to have any DNA that could potentially be present on an item, analysed / profiled, then it is now a legal requirement, under the Human Tissue Act 2004, that we have the consent of the originator of that DNA, before any analysis is undertaken.

  • for paternity testing: if the child in question is under the age of 16 years old and not in the care of the mother we will require written confirmation of who has parental responsibility and their consent before processing the paternity testing samples.

We realise that these consent issues are difficult to deal with especially in the context of your investigation into potential infidelity or paternity. However, they are legal requirements and we can't proceed without these consents being granted.

 

For paternity cases we will send you the appropriate consent paperwork during the process of arranging the paternity test (for more information see our Paternity Testing page).

 

For infidelity investigations we have prepared a Consent Form which you can download by clicking on the link below. You will need to complete the form and post it back to us (we need the original, please).

 

Thank you for your understanding.

 

DOWNLOAD THE FAMILY FORENSICS CONSENT FORM

 

(The form in in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. If you don't have an Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can download it free of charge by clicking on the logo shown below)

 

 

 

 

If you wish to talk, in-confidence to one of our advisors, please contact Family Forensics now.