Bill Text: TX HB618 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to circumstances involving extrinsic fraud in establishment of paternity.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-18 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB618 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB618-Introduced.html
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| By: Dutton | H.B. No. 618 | |
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| relating to circumstances involving extrinsic fraud in | ||
| establishment of paternity. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 160, Family Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 160.107 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 160.107. PATERNITY ORDER BASED ON EXTRINSIC FRAUD. A | ||
| person identified in a court order as the father of a child who | ||
| demonstrates that the order was obtained by fraudulent | ||
| representations made by the child's mother to induce the person | ||
| into believing that the person was the child's father satisfies any | ||
| requirement in law that the person demonstrate the existence of | ||
| extrinsic fraud in order to be entitled to equitable relief from the | ||
| order through a bill of review or other judicial action. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 160.107, Family Code, as added by this | ||
| Act, applies to any order identifying a person as the father of a | ||
| child, regardless of the date on which the order was rendered. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
