Texas § FA.160.705 - LIMITATION ON HUSBAND'S DISPUTE OF PATERNITY

§ FA.160.705. LIMITATION ON HUSBAND'S DISPUTE OF PATERNITY

LIMITATION ON HUSBAND'S DISPUTE OF PATERNITY. (a) Except as otherwise provided by Subsection (b), the husband of a wife who gives birth to a child by means of assisted reproduction may not challenge his paternity of the child unless: (1) before the fourth anniversary of the date of learning of the birth of the child he commences a proceeding to adjudicate his paternity; and (2) the court finds that he did not consent to the assisted reproduction before or after the birth of the child. (b) A proceeding to adjudicate paternity may be maintained at any time if the court determines that: (1) the husband did not provide sperm for or, before or after the birth of the child, consent to assisted reproduction by his wife; (2) the husband and the mother of the child have not cohabited since the probable time of assisted reproduction; and (3) the husband never openly treated the child as his own. (c) The limitations provided by this section apply to a marriage declared invalid after assisted reproduction. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 821, Sec. 1.01, eff. June 14, 2001.