After 70 years, DNA test leads woman to correct her birth certificate
A woman used DNA testing to find her real father and asked the ACT Supreme Court to correct her birth certificate.
Reported by region.com.auClaims checked against the source, 18 h ago.
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The case raises questions about why Australian law requires a court order for birth certificate corrections.
In Australia. The decision clarifies ACT law on birth certificate amendments and may prompt similar cases as more Australians use DNA tests to explore family history.
Key facts
- 1963
- Birth year
- Canberra Community Hospital
- Birth hospital
- 27
- Mother's age at birth
- 27
- Listed father's age at birth
- A woman born in Canberra in 1963 discovered through AncestryDNA that the man listed as her father on her birth certificate was not her biological parent.
- The woman traced her real biological father through a half-brother she met via the DNA network.
- Justice Andrew Muller examined the DNA evidence and declared the listed father was not her biological parent.
- Justice Muller ordered the Registrar-General to amend the birth register.
