Establish Paternity/ DNA Testing
The State of Ohio has considered that parents encounter situations where children are born to unmarried parents. When children are born to unmarried parents the Mother is automatically the residential parent and legal custodian by statute. This means that if a purported Father wants to establish paternity and exercise his constitutional parental rights he must do so by filing a Complaint in the Court of Common Pleas. A DNA test or genetic test can be requested to determine parentage.