interest of the child standard would be applied. Through no fault of their own, the children in these cases have been forced into highly stressful paternity proceedings that may significantly impact the rest of their lives. Ironically, while they are at the center of these disputes, the records contain no information about where they live, where they go to school, whether they are healthy, what their current family life is like or even whether they are aware of these proceedings. Moreover, the records contain little or no information about the relationship between the children and their legal fathers, who would disown them, or whether the blood tests will promote a relationship with a new parent. More disturbing, these proceedings are occurring more than ten years after 35, 940 (1992) (<HOLDING>); Monroe v. Monroe, 329 Md. 758, 773, 621 A.2d
holding that the trial court erred by not considering whether ordering blood tests to disestablish paternity was in the best interest of the child holding that the trial court must specifically consider whether it would be in the best interest of the child for the case to proceed before a putative father may be permitted to seek blood tests in an attempt to rebut the presumption of paternity holding that in domestic law custody case blood tests to determine paternity of child born out of wedlock may only be ordered upon a showing of good cause under the best interest of the child standard holding that the best interest of the child was the proper standard to apply in determining whether blood tests should be conducted holding that the best interest of the child is the paramount concern in determining whether to order blood tests to determine paternity