Tex. Fam. Code § 160.512

Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
Section 160.512 - Offense: Falsification of Specimen
(a) A person commits an offense if the person alters, destroys, conceals, fabricates, or falsifies genetic evidence in a proceeding to adjudicate parentage, including inducing another person to provide a specimen with the intent to affect the outcome of the proceeding.
(b) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree.
(c) An order excluding a man as the biological father of a child based on genetic evidence shown to be altered, fabricated, or falsified is void and unenforceable.

Tex. Fam. Code § 160.512

Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1221, Sec. 7, eff. 9/1/2011.