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Texas Family Code - Section 161.104. Rights Of Designated Managing Conservator Pending Court Appointment

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§ 161.104. RIGHTS OF DESIGNATED MANAGING CONSERVATOR 
PENDING COURT APPOINTMENT.  A person, licensed child-placing 
agency, or authorized agency designated managing conservator of a 
child in an irrevocable or unrevoked affidavit of relinquishment 
has a right to possession of the child superior to the right of the 
person executing the affidavit, the right to consent to medical, 
surgical, dental, and psychological treatment of the child, and the 
rights and duties given by Chapter 153 to a possessory conservator 
until such time as these rights and duties are modified or 
terminated by court order.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, § 1, eff. April 20, 1995.  
Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 751, § 70, eff. Sept. 1, 
1995.

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