Tex. Fam. Code § 160.707 · Subchapter H. CHILD OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION

PARENTAL STATUS OF DECEASED SPOUSE.

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

If a spouse dies before the placement of eggs, sperm, or embryos, the deceased spouse is not a parent of the resulting child unless the deceased spouse consented in a record kept by a licensed physician that if assisted reproduction were to occur after death the deceased spouse would be a parent of the child.

Notes and commentary — not statutory text

History

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 821, Sec. 1.01, eff. June 14, 2001.

Amended by:

Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 972 (S.B. 228), Sec. 43, eff. September 1, 2007.

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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