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Texas Family Code - Section 160.753. Establishment Of Parent-Child Relationship

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§ 160.753. ESTABLISHMENT OF PARENT-CHILD 
RELATIONSHIP.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
chapter or another law, the mother-child relationship exists 
between a woman and a child by an adjudication confirming the woman 
as a parent of the child born to a gestational mother under a 
gestational agreement if the gestational agreement is validated 
under this subchapter or enforceable under other law, regardless of 
the fact that the gestational mother gave birth to the child.
	(b)  The father-child relationship exists between a child 
and a man by an adjudication confirming the man as a parent of the 
child born to a gestational mother under a gestational agreement if 
the gestational agreement is validated under this subchapter or 
enforceable under other law.

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 457, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.           

Last modified: August 11, 2007