What if I need a legal DNA paternity test?

In addition to personal information home DNA tests, our sister service www.dadchecksilver.com also provides legal or Court approved paternity DNA tests.

If you are from the general public and have more complex DNA testing needs, then we would like to direct you to our sister service, dadcheck which can accommodate complex requests. This might be one of the following:

• A private legal (accredited) DNA test for Birth Certificate changes.
• Immigration  DNA test for the Home Office or Passport Office
• A maternity DNA test (generally required for Immigration applications)
• DNA tests on deceased persons (forensic DNA testing)
• Surrogacy DNA tests for a Parental Order
• Sibling DNA Tests (full, half or not related)
• Sperm donor testing (alleged father and child)
• Grand-parentage DNA testing
• Avuncular DNA Testing for aunts/uncles.

Also if any of the participants lives far away from you/you don’t want contact or overseas, that is a separate DNA testing kit is required, then please contact us on 0191 543 6434, e-mail sales@dadchecksilver.com or go to www.dadchecksilver.com

If you have a solicitor (or social services are involved) and they are dealing with your DNA testing case, then please direct them to our service for professionals, which is: www.dadcheckgold.com. You can ask them to call 0191 543 6334 or e-mail sales@dadcheckgold.com.

For dadcheck legal (accredited) DNA tests only, our laboratories are recognised by the Ministry of Justice as “a body that may carry out parentage tests directed by the civil courts of England and Wales under section 20 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969”. We hold the international accreditation standard, BS EN ISO 17025 for testing laboratories.

If you have any questions, we will be happy to help.