Tex. Fam. Code § 160.7031 · Subchapter H. CHILD OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION
UNMARRIED MAN'S PATERNITY OF CHILD OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If an unmarried man, with the intent to be the father of a resulting child, provides sperm to a licensed physician and consents to the use of that sperm for assisted reproduction by an unmarried woman, he is the father of a resulting child.
(b) Consent by an unmarried man who intends to be the father of a resulting child in accordance with this section must be in a record signed by the man and the unmarried woman and kept by a licensed physician.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 972 (S.B. 228), Sec. 40, eff. September 1, 2007.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.160.htm
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