State Ex Rel. Sanders v. Sauer

Original Proceeding in Prohibition

STEPHEN N. LIMBAUGH, JR., Judge.

Relator, the prosecuting attorney of Jackson County, seeks a writ of prohibition preventing respondent from ordering a custodial parent and child to submit to genetic blood testing in a criminal nonsupport proceeding. This Court granted a preliminary writ, which is now made absolute. Mo. Const, art. V, sec. 4.

The facts of this case are not in dispute. In 1990, the Division of Family Services filed a “Petition for Declaration of Paternity” against Montae Perkins under the Uniform Parentage Act (UPA), secs. 210.817-.852, RSMo…