The state Supreme Court, on a 5-2 vote, has modified the common-law doctrine that bars DNA testing in every case in which a putative father of a child has held a child out as his own by requiring that judges only apply the doctrine if they determine it is in the best interests of the child.
In contrast, two dissenting justices argued that the doctrine should be eliminated except to preserve the parental status of a husband who chooses to parent a nonbiological child born into an existing marriage.
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