The Court of Appeals vacated the Trial Court’s decision because the Brazilian birth certificate identifying Defendant as Father was not sufficient to establish his parentage and therefore the entry of the Uniform Child Support Order (UCSO) was erroneous. 

The Trial Court erred when it compelled Appellant to provide a DNA sample to establish that Appellee was the biological son of decedent.

A trial court improperly held that the surname of a child born out of wedlock should be changed from the mother’s surname to the biological father’s surname.