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Tex. Fam. Code § 160.704

CONSENT TO ASSISTED REPRODUCTION

Known as the Uniform Parentage Act

The act spans §§ 160–160 (97 sections).

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

(a) Consent by a married woman to assisted reproduction must be in a record signed by the woman and her husband and kept by a licensed physician. This requirement does not apply to the donation of eggs by a married woman for assisted reproduction by another woman.

(b) Failure by the husband to sign a consent required by Subsection (a) before or after the birth of the child does not preclude a finding that the husband is the father of a child born to his wife if the wife and husband openly treated the child as their own.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.