Tex. Family Code § 160.706
This is the official text of Tex. Family Code § 160.706, part of Texas’s Family Code — governs marriage, divorce, child custody and support, and adoption.
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§ 160.706. EFFECT OF DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE.
Official statutory text
(a) If a marriage is dissolved before the placement of eggs, sperm, or embryos, the former spouse is not a parent of the resulting child unless the former spouse consented in a record kept by a licensed physician that if assisted reproduction were to occur after a divorce the former spouse would be a parent of the child.
(b) The consent of a former spouse to assisted reproduction may be withdrawn by that individual in a record kept by a licensed physician at any time before the placement of eggs, sperm, or embryos.
(b) The consent of a former spouse to assisted reproduction may be withdrawn by that individual in a record kept by a licensed physician at any time before the placement of eggs, sperm, or embryos.
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