Amends TCA Title 36 and Title 39.
In present law, a person commits parentage fraud who seeks to establish another individual as the biological parent of a child in the person's custody with intent to deprive the individual of property or to prevent the child's actual biological parent from exercising parental rights to the child and the person knows that the individual is not the child's biological parent or seeks to be established as a child's parent based on the person's status as a biological parent of the child and the person knows that the person is not the child's biological parent. This offense is classified as a Class B misdemeanor. However, the above provisions do not apply when the child involved was conceived as a result of aggravated rape, rape, rape of a child, especially aggravated rape, or especially aggravated rape of a child; the child involved has been or is in the process of being adopted; or the victim of the offense was the defendant's spouse at the time of the offense. This bill deletes the above provisions entirely.
In present law, a person commits parentage fraud who seeks to establish another individual as the biological parent of a child in the person's custody with intent to deprive the individual of property or to prevent the child's actual biological parent from exercising parental rights to the child and the person knows that the individual is not the child's biological parent or seeks to be established as a child's parent based on the person's status as a biological parent of the child and the person knows that the person is not the child's biological parent. This offense is classified as a Class B misdemeanor. However, the above provisions do not apply when the child involved was conceived as a result of aggravated rape, rape, rape of a child, especially aggravated rape, or especially aggravated rape of a child; the child involved has been or is in the process of being adopted; or the victim of the offense was the defendant's spouse at the time of the offense. This bill deletes the above provisions entirely.
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