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Texas Family Code - Section 160.631. Rules For Adjudication Of Paternity

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§ 160.631. RULES FOR ADJUDICATION OF PATERNITY.  (a) The 
court shall apply the rules stated in this section to adjudicate the 
paternity of a child.
	(b)  The paternity of a child having a presumed, 
acknowledged, or adjudicated father may be disproved only by 
admissible results of genetic testing excluding that man as the 
father of the child or identifying another man as the father of the 
child.
	(c)  Unless the results of genetic testing are admitted to 
rebut other results of genetic testing, the man identified as the 
father of a child under Section 160.505 shall be adjudicated as 
being the father of the child.
	(d)  Unless the results of genetic testing are admitted to 
rebut other results of genetic testing, a man excluded as the father 
of a child by genetic testing shall be adjudicated as not being the 
father of the child.
	(e)  If the court finds that genetic testing under Section 
160.505 does not identify or exclude a man as the father of a child, 
the court may not dismiss the proceeding.  In that event, the 
results of genetic testing and other evidence are admissible to 
adjudicate the issue of paternity.

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 821, § 1.01, eff. June 14, 
2001.      

Last modified: August 11, 2007