Tex. Fam. Code § 160.603 · Subchapter G. PROCEEDING TO ADJUDICATE PARENTAGE

NECESSARY PARTIES TO PROCEEDING.

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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

The following individuals must be joined as parties in a proceeding to adjudicate parentage:

(1) the mother of the child; and

(2) a man whose paternity of the child is to be adjudicated.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 821, Sec. 1.01, 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.160.htm
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