{"data":{"id":"us-ut/utah-code-81-5-705","jurisdiction":"us-ut","citation":"Utah Code § 81-5-705","heading":"Limitation on husband's dispute of paternity.","body":"(1) Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (2), the husband of a wife who gives birth to a child by means of assisted reproduction may not challenge the husband's paternity of the child unless:\n(a) within two years after learning of the birth of the child the husband commences a proceeding to adjudicate the husband's paternity; and\n(b) the tribunal finds that the husband did not consent to the assisted reproduction, before or after the birth of the child.\n(2) A proceeding to adjudicate paternity may be maintained at any time if the tribunal determines that:\n(a) the husband did not provide sperm for, or before or after the birth of the child consent to, assisted reproduction by the husband's wife;\n(b) the husband and the birth mother of the child have not cohabited since the probable time of assisted reproduction; and\n(c) the husband never openly treated the child as the husband's own.\n(3) The limitation provided in this section applies to a marriage declared invalid after assisted reproduction.","path":["Title 81 Utah Domestic Relations Code","Chapter 81-5 Uniform Parentage Act","Part 81-5-7 Assisted Reproduction"],"source_url":"https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title81/Chapter5/81-5-S705.html","current_through":"2026 General Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T11:34:34Z","sha256":"92f04e33c2a5384f9933bc519a5a959df3f57ccce728587b15f2afcbda9a45ab","source_id":"us-ut","stale":false,"prev":"us-ut/utah-code-81-5-704","next":"us-ut/utah-code-81-5-706"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}