Reply #93: In most of the US, those laws aren't applicable to married couples.

[Xithras]

In California, I'd be in deep doodoo if I divorced my wife and then did a DNA test without either her permission because the laws governing shared physical and legal custody pretty uniformly prevent any covered parent from having any medical procedure completed without the other parents permission...whether it's a DNA test or a wart removal.

Unless a judge intervenes, those laws don't apply to married couples. I could take my daughter to get a DNA test or Lasik surgery tomorrow without my wifes permission, and my wife would have no legal recourse. The law makes many assumptions about parents rights in a marriage, and just as a child born in wedlock is legally considered to be the child of the husband, the married parents of that child are both assumed to have full legal rights to make any medical decision for the child.