Tex. Fam. Code § 101.0015 · Chapter 101. DEFINITIONS
ALLEGED FATHER.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) "Alleged father" means a man who alleges himself to be, or is alleged to be, the genetic father or a possible genetic father of a child, but whose paternity has not been determined.
(b) The term does not include:
(1) a presumed father;
(2) a man whose parental rights have been terminated or declared to not exist; or
(3) a male donor.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 821, Sec. 2.04, eff. June 14, 2001.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.101.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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