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1999 SESSION

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HB 2114 Exhumation of corpses.

Introduced by: C. Richard Cranwell | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Exhumations and proof of parentage. Provides a procedure for exhumation, testing, and reinterment of a dead body for the purpose of obtaining a posthumous sample to establish parentage, particularly paternity. This bill amends the exhumation statute to authorize the person attempting to prove paternity to petition for exhumation and testing of a dead body for the purpose of establishing such paternity. Present law requires substantial evidence that the person requesting the exhumation is going to prevail in his attempt to prove paternity pursuant to §§ 64.1-5.1 and 64.1-5.2. This bill renders such petitions procedural and not substantive and provides some technical amendments to the evidence statutes. The person obtaining the petition must pay for the exhumation, testing, and reinterment, unless the court determines that, for good cause shown, the estate of the decedent should pay.


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