§ 160.201. ESTABLISHMENT OF PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP. (a) The mother-child relationship is established between a woman and a child by: (1) the woman giving birth to the child; (2) an adjudication of the woman's maternity; or (3) the adoption of the child by the woman. (b) The father-child relationship is established between a man and a child by: (1) an unrebutted presumption of the man's paternity of the child under Section 160.204; (2) an effective acknowledgment of paternity by the man under Subchapter D, unless the acknowledgment has been rescinded or successfully challenged; (3) an adjudication of the man's paternity; (4) the adoption of the child by the man; or (5) the man's consenting to assisted reproduction by his wife under Subchapter H, which resulted in the birth of the child. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 821, § 1.01, eff. June 14, 2001.

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