NO TIME LIMITATION: CHILD HAVING NO PRESUMED, ACKNOWLEDGED, OR ADJUDICATED FATHER
Known as the Uniform Parentage Act
The act spans §§ 160–160 (97 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case In the Interest of Shockley (2003)
Most recently applied in in Re S.T. (June 2015)
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 821, Sec. 1.01, 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 proceeding to adjudicate the parentage of a child having no presumed, acknowledged, or adjudicated father may be commenced at any time, including after the date:
(1) the child becomes an adult; or
(2) an earlier proceeding to adjudicate paternity has been dismissed based on the application of a statute of limitation then in effect.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.