DEPT. OF HEALTH & REHAB. SERVICES v. Privette

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• holding that the party seeking paternity testing “bears the burden of proving ... by clear and convincing evidence” that “the child’s best interests will be better served even if the blood test later proves the child’s factual illegitimacy.”
• holding if a child is born during a marriage, the law presumes that the husband of the wife and mother is the child’s father
• recognizing 2006 enactment of section 742.18, Florida Statutes, authorizing action to disestablish paternity
• \The `legal father' is the man to whom the mother was married when the child was born and whose name appears on the birth certificate.\

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