State, Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services ex rel. Huggins v. Heidler

The Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services seeks certiorari review of an order which permits respondent Donald Hei-dler to obtain an Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) test. We grant the petition on the authority of State, Dept. of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. Opel, 620 So.2d 191 (Fla. 2d DCA 1993).

As in Opel, the request for HLA testing arose when Heidler was summoned to court to answer a URESA petition. A judicial determination of paternity, albeit by default, has already been made in the initiating state (Michigan). Accordingly, that judgment is entitled to full faith and…