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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 19. DOMESTIC RELATIONS · Chapter 7. PARENT AND CHILD RELATIONSHIP GENERALLY · Article 2. LEGITIMACY

19-7-21. When children conceived by artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, or other similar method of assisted reproduction are presumed legitimate.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    All children born within wedlock or within the usual period of gestation thereafter who have been conceived by means of artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, or other similar method of assisted reproduction are irrebuttably presumed legitimate if both spouses have consented in writing to the use and administration of artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, or other similar method of assisted reproduction.#

  2. (b)

    Subsection (a) of this Code section shall be subject to Article 2 of Chapter 8 of this title, and, in the event of a conflict, the provisions of such article shall prevail.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 74-101.1, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 166, § 1; Ga. L. 2025, p. 806, § 11/HB 327, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, designated the existing provisions of this Code section as subsection (a); inserted “, in vitro fertilization, or other similar method of assisted reproduction” in two places in subsection (a); and added subsection (b).

Cross references

In vitro fertilization defined, § 31-1-26.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t18-t19-(v16)-pdf.pdf, Volume V16, 2022 edition, 2025 supplement, page 195; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 3b0e2669853a.