Department of Revenue ex rel. T.E.P. v. Price

CASANUEVA, Judge.

The Department of Revenue seeks a writ of certiorari to quash a trial court order compelling Pearson Price and the mother of a minor child, T.E.P., to undergo a genetic test. The Department asserts that the trial court failed to properly follow the statutory framework governing paternity and genetic testing when it entered the order. We agree, grant the petition, and issue the writ quashing the trial court’s order.

T.E.P. was born in 2001. Following the child’s birth, Mr. Price signed an affidavit acknowledging his paternity of T.E.P. Some five years later, in 2006, the…