Tex. Health & Safety Code § 192.007 · Subchapter A. GENERAL REGISTRATION PROVISIONS
SUPPLEMENTARY CERTIFICATES FOR CHILD WHO DIES BEFORE ADOPTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If a child in the process of being adopted in this state dies before the adoption is completed, the persons who attempted to adopt the child may request the state registrar to file supplementary birth and death certificates for the child.
(b) Persons making a request under this section must include with the request:
(1) sufficient information to prove that they attempted to adopt the child and that the child died before the adoption was completed;
(2) a copy of an irrevocable affidavit of relinquishment of parental rights relating to the child;
(3) a copy of the affidavit of the status of the child, if applicable; and
(4) any other information required by the department.
(c) On receipt of the information required by Subsection (b), the state registrar shall complete birth and death certificates as if the child had been adopted by court decree and then died.
(d) In the absence of evidence to the contrary, compliance with this section and the completion of the birth certificate constitute adoption by estoppel.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.192.htm
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