ALLEGED FATHER
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case In the Interest of Baby Boy R. (2006)
Most recently applied in In the INTEREST OF C.M v. a Child (May 2015)
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 821, Sec. 2.04, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(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.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.