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Tex. Family Code § 160.622: CONSEQUENCES OF DECLINING GENETIC TESTING.
Where this section sits in the code
- FAMILY CODE
- TITLE 5. THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP AND THE SUIT AFFECTING THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP
- SUBTITLE B. SUITS AFFECTING THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP
- CHAPTER 160. UNIFORM PARENTAGE ACT
- SUBCHAPTER G. PROCEEDING TO ADJUDICATE PARENTAGE
(a) An order for genetic testing is enforceable by contempt.
(b) A court may adjudicate parentage contrary to the position of an individual whose paternity is being determined on the grounds that the individual declines to submit to genetic testing as ordered by the court.
(c) Genetic testing of the mother of a child is not a prerequisite to testing the child and a man whose paternity is being determined. If the mother is unavailable or declines to submit to genetic testing, the court may order the testing of the child and each man whose paternity is being adjudicated.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 821, Sec. 1.01, eff. June 14, 2001.
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