Legal Question in Family Law in Texas
My aunt gave up her parental rights to who she thought was her child's father's mother. In which her daughter's father had been deceased during the time of signing over her rights. Now 29 years later, my aunt has then told her daughter that the man she claimed to have fathered her daughter might not be the father. On the legal documents it states that the assumed father is the "natural father. She is very vague about all the details, but wouldn't some form of a paternity test have to have been done, before handing that child away to a stranger? And what does "natural father" mean in the law?
1 Answer from Attorneys
No paternity test is required. Biological strangers adopt children every day.
"Natural father" is not defined in the Texas Family code, but I would take that term to mean "biological father."
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