Paternity
Legal Resources
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Establishing Paternity Start Here
FAQs, Instructions and Do-It-Yourself Forms Frequently Asked Questions about Texas Paternity Law. How paternity is established by presumption, voluntary acknowledgment and court order. Do-it-yourself forms that may be used to ask for a court order establishing paternity of a child. Read More
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- Partnership for Legal Access
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Mistaken Paternity
Instructions and Do-It-Yourself Forms Information about taking back (rescinding) an acknowledgment or denial of paternity. Do-it-yourself forms that may be used to challenge an acknowledgment or denial of paternity. Do-it-yourself forms that may be used by a man to terminate his parental rights based on mistaken paternity. Read More
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- Partnership for Legal Access
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Paternity
Click on this link to request an amendment, adding or changing the father's name on your child's birth certificate. Content Detail
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- Texas Department of State Health Services
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Answers to questions about Child Support in Texas
What is child support, how much is child support, how to establish child support payments, withholding orders and more answers to questions about child support. Read More
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- Partnership for Legal Access
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Birth and Death Record Amendment Forms
Click on this link to request an application to change or amend a birth certificate, after the judge has signed an order changing your or child's name. Content Detail
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- Texas Department of State Health Services
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Child Support through the Texas Attorney General's Office
Link to OAG Child Support site. Content Detail
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TXAccess.org
This links to a website of English and Spanish resources for parents who do not have primary custody of their children, sponsored by Legal Aid of Northwest Texas and the Texas Attorney General's Office. It contains legal information about custody, child support, visitation, grandparents' rights and paternity issues. It provides some forms that might be useful to a non-custodial parent. Content Detail
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- Legal Aid of Northwest Texas
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Assisted Reproduction and Gestational Agreements PDF
Read this to find out how Texas law affects parenthood when people use infertility treatment, including surrogate mothers or sperm and egg donors Content Detail
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- Texas Partnership for Legal Access
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- Spanish / Español
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Application for a New Birth Certificate Based on Parentage
This form is used to ADD, REMOVE, or REPLACE information regarding the father and/or mother listed on the original birth certificate according to an establishment of PATERNITY or a COURT ORDER. Content Detail
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- Office of the Attorney General Texas
