Legal Paternity DNA Testing

At easyDNA we offer a range of Legal DNA Tests for those requiring their DNA test results to be used in a court of law. A legal DNA paternity test can be used to settle many family related legal matters; like child custody cases, child support cases, inheritance disputes and immigration applications (visit our DNA Immigration Testing page for more information about this service).

Your results will initially be sent to you by email within 5-7 working days, however, a hard copy (original) of all the documentation will follow around 10 days later and this will be signed and documented by a notary.

For a DNA test to be fully defensible and court admissible, the testing must follow a strict chain of custody procedure. Use our simple, step-by-step instructions on how to conduct and present your DNA test results.

Step 1: Ordering your Legal DNA Test

Firstly, you must place your order and process payment using our simple-to-use Order DNA Test page. The cost of our Legal DNA paternity test is R5,950 (price excluding any fees charged by the sampler). Once your order has been confirmed a Legal DNA Kit will be specifically assigned to your case and dispatched to you within 2 working days. Our Legal DNA Kit contains everything you will need for the test, including submission forms, sampling instructions and the sampling kits.

Step 2: Booking an appointment with a Sampler

A legal DNA test requires that a neutral third party, usually a medical professional like a doctor or a nurse, collect your DNA samples. They are known as Samplers and are responsible for verifying the identity of the parties being tested and their subsequent samples. You are responsible for making this appointment and paying any related fees.

Step 3: Preparing all necessary Paperwork

Here is a list of what you will need to take to your Sampler’s appointment.

• Each person being tested must provide two passport size photos showing your full face and wearing no hat.

• Each person being tested must also provide an original ID document that can be checked to confirm identity when sampling (photocopying the ID and signing the back of it with your name, signature and date to enclose with your samples is also recommended) Examples of accepted ID documents: Passport, Full Drivers License, National Identity Card with photo, Armed Forces ID card, Pass card issued by a Government Department or other photo ID.

• Certified copy of birth certificate for children tested.

• Sampling kit and submission forms as provided by easyDNA in your Legal DNA Kit

Step 4: Identification and Sample Collection

At your appointment, your Sampler will collect DNA samples from all participants on oral swabs, which will be carefully dried and placed in the collection envelopes. He/She will seal and label each sample, ensuring that at no time during the process are the participants to come into contact with them, and send them directly back to our offices in the self addressed envelope provided in the testing kit.

The Sampler will endorse the passport-sized photos you have provided in the following way:

1. “I [Samplers Name] certify that this is a true likeness of ... [person’s name]”
   

2. Samplers SIGNATURE
   

3. Date

(For a visual guide on how your samples will be collected visit our Sample Collection Guide page.)

At easyDNA we offer Legal DNA testing on all our relationship tests. For more information on our legal services contact our Customer Support Advisers at info@easydna.co.za.