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===Arranging for a parentage test===
If the mother and the purported father agree to have a paternity test conducted, no order of the court is necessary. You simply <span class="noglossary">contact </span> the appropriate company and arrange to have blood or saliva samples taken and tested. The results will be delivered to you directly. These companies even offer home sampling kits at a somewhat lower rate.
Where the parties don't agree to a test, one of them, usually the alleged father, must make an application to court for an order that samples be taken from the parties and the child and that a paternity test be conducted under s. 33(2) of the ''Family Law Act''. Under s 33(3), the court can also make an order about who must pay for the cost of the test.