Tex. Family Code § 160.512
OFFENSE: FALSIFICATION OF SPECIMEN
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- Tex. Family Code § 160.512, OFFENSE: FALSIFICATION OF SPECIMEN, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/643901
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(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.