In the Interest of Shockley

How courts have described this case

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• noting that section 160.608 codifies paternity by estoppel and allows a court to deny a motion for genetic testing if the conduct of the mother estops her from denying parentage
• “Estoppel is based on the public policy that children should be secure in knowing who their parents are.”
• “[T]he 2001 amendments [to the Family Code] codified paternity by estoppel, allowing a court to deny a motion for genetic testing if the conduct of the mother or the presumed father estops that party from denying parentage.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).