A Dallas family court judge today ordered pregnancy and DNA testing in the case involving Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki and his ex-girlfriend Cristal Taylor.
"We know the first one has to happen," said Associate Judge Randall Grubbs this morning during a brief hearing in a Dallas County court. "The other one may be moot."
Grubbs then ordered the proceedings sealed and attorneys said they could not comment.
In a petition filed last month, Nowitzki is seeking sole custody of Taylor's yet-to-be-born child if tests prove he is the father.
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The petition seeks "to establish the parent-child relationship between Petitioner and the child the subject of this suit in the event that it is determined that Petitioner is the biological father of the child."
It continues later: "Petitioner (Nowitzki) requests that genetic testing be ordered in accordance with chapter 160 of the Texas family code upon birth of the child. Petitioner requests that the arrangements prescribed by the Court for genetic testing including provisions for taking blood buccal cells, bone, hair, or other body tissue or fluid samples."
"In the event that it is determined that Petitioner is the biological father of the child, the best interest of the child ... will be served by the appointment of the Petitioner as sole managing conservator."
Taylor was arrested May 6 at Nowitzki's Preston Hollow home. Since May 13, she has been in the Jefferson County Correctional Facility, facing a 2006 theft of services charge in Beaumont. The trial date has been set for July 27. Separately, she faces a 2000 probation violation in suburban St. Louis.
Taylor told the Dallas Morning News in late May: that she was "very pregnant, about maybe four to 41/2 weeks."