{"id":100353,"date":"2015-09-22T10:52:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T08:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=100353"},"modified":"2015-09-22T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T08:52:48","slug":"requesting-a-paternity-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/2015\/09\/22\/requesting-a-paternity-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Requesting a paternity test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dino Montepara, from Malherbe, Rigg and Ranwell Attorneys, said that if the father disputes the child\u2019s paternity the courts will order a mandatory paternity test.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen a paternity test is required, the courts will schedule a date for the family to return to have blood taken by a nurse.\u201d<br \/>\nIn the event that the family cannot afford to pay for a private test the State will cover the costs of the tests.<br \/>\n\u201cShould the family prefer to have a private physician perform the tests, they can do so at their own costs,\u201d said Montepara.<br \/>\nHe added that in the case where a father wants to prove that he is the father of a child, he can submit a court application to the high court for a paternity test to be performed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div><\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='64a0182b5ec3460c5c763b14ae7cb2d7'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Requiring a paternity test normally becomes an issue when a mother sues for maintenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":100356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3686,8097],"tags":[8492,7965,8546],"class_list":["post-100353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle-news","category-lifestyle-and-health","tag-mrr","tag-parenting","tag-paternity-test"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Lifestyle and Health"},"tag_labels":["MRR","parenting","paternity test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}