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Samantha, a single mother of two children in her early thirties, comes to see you for advice. She is 8 months pregnant and her partner has left her. She is extremely upset, especially by her partner’s parting words: I’m not sending you any money for the brat when it’s born. You can’t prove it’s mine anyway!

She is keen to use paternity testing as soon as the child is born, and tells you that she has kept the hair from her partner’s hairbrush, so that she can use it as a DNA sample without his knowledge. She wants to know how she should go about getting a paternity test in this situation. Which one of the following do you tell her?