Paternity Tests

For home, legal, and immigration testing, sample collection is done using one of our kits. If you are doing a home paternity test, samples can easily be collected by you or anyone in your household. For immigration and legal paternity testing, however, a registered sampler will be required. Collecting samples is easy and painless; a standard oral swab, included in our kits, is used to rub inside the mouth of the participant for ten seconds. The sample collection kit will include detailed instructions to follow. If you have any questions that are not answered with our instruction sheet, please obtain more information by visiting our online sample collection guide.

If you would prefer to collect your kit in person from one of our office locations, please reach out to our team beforehand to organise an appropriate day and time, and also to ensure that your case number has been allocated. If you require separate kits to be sent to separate addresses or countries, please click here to read how our process works before placing your order.

Once the samples have been obtained, simply send them to EasyDNA and we will prepare results for you within a matter of working days upon arrival at our laboratory. If you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to reach out and contact us. For further information, we recommend that you also visit our frequently asked questions section.

EasyDNA offers paternity testing that is fast, accurate, and affordable. Our accredited home paternity test for one child and one alleged father is priced at only $220 AUD. This amount includes the DNA testing kit, laboratory analysis, and final results that will be ready in 5-7 working days (or 3 working days if you choose our express option at checkout).

A home paternity test can be carried out with only samples from the alleged father and the child; however, we do recommend including the mother’s sample where possible as this can help us give you a more accurate result.

All EasyDNA samples are analysed with state-of-the-art genetic identification systems that use 16 different genetic markers. The results we provide guarantee minimum probabilities in excess of 99.99%+ in cases where the alleged father is the biological father of the child. In cases where the alleged father is not the biological parent of the child, we can confirm exclusion with 100% accuracy.

Please note: for non-invasive prenatal paternity testing, the probability of paternity is always 99.9% in cases where results show that the tested male is the biological father of the child.

EasyDNA offers NATA-accredited legal paternity testing as its own category. The procedures for legal DNA testing differ slightly to home paternity testing so that results are admissible in a court of law or can be submitted to the Australian immigration authorities as evidence of a biological relationship. Reasons for requiring a legal paternity test can include: challenging a will, providing evidence in family court, changing the name on a birth certificate, or for presentation before immigration services.

If the alleged father is unavailable for testing, EasyDNA has a range of relationship tests that can be used to infer paternity in specific cases. Find the answers you need with these tests that use DNA from the alleged father’s relatives, rather than the alleged father himself.

Our relationship test alternatives include sibling, grandparent, aunt/uncle, and other male relative testing. When a known family member to the alleged father is prepared to cooperate with testing, we can easily confirm or exclude the unavailable father as a biological parent.