Sec. 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.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1221 (S.B. 502), Sec. 7, eff. September 1, 2011.
Structure Texas Statutes
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
Section 160.501. Application of Subchapter
Section 160.502. Order for Testing
Section 160.503. Requirements for Genetic Testing
Section 160.504. Report of Genetic Testing
Section 160.505. Genetic Testing Results; Rebuttal
Section 160.506. Costs of Genetic Testing
Section 160.507. Additional Genetic Testing
Section 160.508. Genetic Testing When All Individuals Not Available
Section 160.509. Deceased Individual
Section 160.510. Identical Brothers