Legal Opinion
Miller v. Miller
Connecticut Superior Court
Decided June 27, 1984No. File FA7-475PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFoti, J.
This is a civil action to determine the paternity of the named plaintiffs child. A hearing in limine was conducted in advance of trial on the state’s motion to allow it to introduce, for the purpose of establishing the probability of paternity, the results of human leukocyte antigen tests (hereinafter HLA) and related tests.
HLA testing is based on tissue typing of the white blood cells, wherein those cells are tested against different reagents to establish genetic markers which then may form a correlation between the mother and the child and between the child and the putative father. Since a…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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