Tex. Family Code § 160.704
This is the official text of Tex. Family Code § 160.704, part of Texas’s Family Code — governs marriage, divorce, child custody and support, and adoption.
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§ 160.704. CONSENT TO ASSISTED REPRODUCTION.
Official statutory text
(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.
(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.
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