Sometimes a situation arises when confirmation of kinship is required. This may be associated with property matters, when a person is recognized as the heir by law, with the restoration of family ties, determination of tissue compatibility, etc.
Instructions
Step 1
Collect and evaluate all documents at your disposal, directly or indirectly confirming the relationship. Contact the registry office. If, as a result, you have not received the necessary documents, file an application with the court to establish the fact of kinship.
Step 2
Proceed in this order. The court considers applications for establishing kinship only if this fact cannot be confirmed in any other way. If you did not contact the registry office, therefore, you did not use all the possibilities to solve the problem. The court may refuse to accept the application.
Step 3
The documents of origin and documents confirming the change in passport data are of the greatest importance. In the first case, these are birth certificates, court decisions on adoption or adoption, on establishing paternity; in the second - certificates of the conclusion and dissolution of marriage, of the change of name.
Step 4
Copies of these documents can be issued by the registry office that registered these events, and by the courts that made the decisions. Apply to the appropriate agency. The place of birth of the persons you are interested in is established either according to the information available in the family, or according to documents - a passport, an extract from the house book. If you need to get them in the same settlement where you live, you need to personally submit an application and get an answer; if in another city, send a written request. If you have the necessary document, a copy will be sent to the registry office at your place of residence, and you can receive it after paying the state fee. If not, you will be sent by mail an archive certificate confirming the absence of data.
Step 5
In judicial institutions, an application for a copy of the decision must be applied to the office or archive. If it is impossible to obtain the necessary documents, file an application with the court to establish the fact of kinship.
Step 6
In addition to all that has been said above, at present there is a possibility of establishing kinship with the help of genetic examination. These methods are based on the study of DNA, the structure of which is unique and reflects the individual characteristics of a person. Any biomaterials are suitable for research - blood, epithelium, nails, hair, etc. A person receives half of the DNA from his mother, the other from his father. By comparing some of its fragments - loci - the degree of kinship is established. Most often, an examination is carried out in this way to establish paternity.
Step 7
Examination of DNA gives a result, the reliability of which is 99, 90% when paternity is established and 100% when it is excluded. This is scientifically based and is an important argument in resolving some legal disputes.
Step 8
If it is necessary to establish kinship through a common ancestor, the accuracy of the study increases if it is possible to obtain biological material from people of the older generation. Modern research methods make it possible to identify siblings and cousins, establish kinship between grandfather / grandmother and grandchildren, etc.
