Rights and Status of Biological Children Born Without Marital Relationship

This research is aimed to knowing and analyzing the rights and status of biological children born without marital relations, as well as the emergence of kinship or responsibility between men and children through DNA tests. This writing uses a normative juridical legal research method that is guided by legal rules or norms. The approach methods used are case approach and statutory approach. The source of this legal research material uses primary legal materials, secondary legal materials and tertiary legal materials. Data collection uses a qualitative data analysis method. namely by describing legal issues found through literature research using relevant regulations. The results of this study indicate that biological children born without a marital relationship only have a civil relationship with their mother and their mother’s family. The researcher also concludes that kinship or responsibility does not solely arise due to DNA compatibility between a man as a father and a child.