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Title 19-A: DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Part 3: PARENTS AND CHILDREN
Chapter 61: MAINE PARENTAGE ACT
Subchapter 7: PARENTAGE BY ASSISTED REPRODUCTION
§1926

§1925. Challenge by spouse to consent

1.  Challenge by spouse to consent.  The spouse of a person who gives birth to a child through assisted reproduction may challenge the spouse's own parentage of the child only if:  
A. The spouse did not provide gametes or embryos for the assisted reproduction;   [PL 2015, c. 296, Pt. A, §1 (NEW); PL 2015, c. 296, Pt. D, §1 (AFF).]
B. The spouse did not before or after the birth of the child consent to the assisted reproduction by the person who gave birth;   [PL 2015, c. 296, Pt. A, §1 (NEW); PL 2015, c. 296, Pt. D, §1 (AFF).]
C. The spouse and the person who gave birth to the child have not cohabitated since the time of the child's birth; and   [PL 2015, c. 296, Pt. A, §1 (NEW); PL 2015, c. 296, Pt. D, §1 (AFF).]
D. The spouse did not openly hold out the child as the spouse's own.   [PL 2015, c. 296, Pt. A, §1 (NEW); PL 2015, c. 296, Pt. D, §1 (AFF).]
[PL 2015, c. 296, Pt. A, §1 (NEW); PL 2015, c. 296, Pt. D, §1 (AFF).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2015, c. 296, Pt. A, §1 (NEW). PL 2015, c. 296, Pt. D, §1 (AFF).
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