DNA鉴定证据于亲子关系事件的适用研究——以台湾地区法院判决分析为例

The Application of DNA Identification Evidence in the Parent-child Relationship Case——take Taiwan Region as an example

亲子关系鉴定是判断人与人之间生物血缘关系的检验方式。1985年,英国遗传学家AlecJefferys首先把DNA鉴定的分析技术应用至亲子鉴定上,随后各国法院也把DNA鉴定作为判断亲子关系存否的证据。科学的进步势必会带动社会的变迁,而法律既然是一种社会规范,也必然将因科学的发展而改变。随着现代遗传医学及生物科学的进步,以DNA鉴定作为确认亲子关系的工具,其准确率已几近百分之百。然而,追求子女的最佳利益已经是亲子关系事件处理的最高指导原则,既然DNA鉴定有如此高的准确程度,势必会对亲子关系的建立方式带来一定程度的冲击,而法律也必须对这样的冲击做出回应与调整。

Parentage testing determines whether two individuals have a biological parent-child relationship or not. Alee Jeffreys, a British geneticist, first in 1985, developed the DNA analysis technology for Paternity test. Afterwards, the courts all over the world took DNA identification as a proof of parenthood. Scientific progress is bound to bring about social changes. Law, as a social norm, will also inevitably change with the development of science. With the progress of modem medical genetics and biological sciences, the accuracy of DNA identification technology, as a tool to confirm parent-child relationship, is close to one hundred percent. However, the parent- child relationship is guided under the principle of the best interests of the child. Since the identification of DNA has such a high degree of accuracy, it is bound to bring about a certain impact on the establishment of parent- child relationship, and the law has to respond and adjust accordingly.