Presumed father died before the child's birth. Experts confirmed kinship through the uncle
In 2025, a girl was dating a young man and became pregnant by him, but two weeks before the birth of her son, the young man died. The child received his father's patronymic and his mother's surname.
Since the couple was not officially married and the deceased was not registered as the father of the newborn child, it became necessary to first establish paternity to formalize a survivor's pension.
The court appointed a genetic examination at the Department of the State Committee of Forensic Examinations for Mogilev Region, obliging the deceased's brother to appear at the expert unit for the collection of biological samples.
The results of the Y-chromosome DNA study of the child and the presumed uncle confirmed that the deceased's brother and the child could be biological relatives along the male line (including uncle and nephew, but not father and son), with the probability of kinship along the male line being 99.996%, the State Committee of Forensic Examinations reported.