http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gqOQJ9Q4STQhxRm0hOlLTXDWEC0g
http://www.ibdna.com/regions/UK/EN/?page=paternity-testing-ban-upheld-in-france
http://www.ibdna.com/regions/UK/EN/?page=paternityTestingEndsCase
Dude was fighting child support for 55 fukking years!
http://www.ibdna.com/regions/UK/EN/?page=paternity-testing-ban-upheld-in-france
http://www.ibdna.com/regions/UK/EN/?page=paternityTestingEndsCase
DNA has become big business in Spain, where private companies are cashing in on legal restrictions across the border and offering paternity tests to suspicious French fathers.
Labgenetics is one such company. Set up in a Madrid suburb in 2003, it does almost 30 percent of its business with French customers.
"In France, the law bans a father from seeking a paternity test without a judge's authorization," said the firm's technical director, Jorge Puente.
If those samples were found in the post by officials on their way to foreign laboratories, the French men who sent them could theoretically face a year in prison and a 15,000 Euro fine. This year the ban was challenged but the French Government decided to uphold and maintain the anti-paternity testing law.
In 2003, Ragnar Johansson's 55-year battle finally came to an end thanks to paternity testing. The dispute began in 1948 in Sweden, when the man, now in his eighties, said he wasn't the father of the girl said to be his daughter. His claim was dismissed and the court ordered him to pay child maintenance to the girl's mother. It may have been 55 years on, but the initial ruling did not have the benefit of paternity testing available - it wasn't invented until the 1980s.
Dude was fighting child support for 55 fukking years!