§ 704. Consent to assisted reproduction
(a) A person who intends to be a parent of a child born through assisted reproduction shall consent to the use of assisted reproduction to conceive a child with the intent to parent the child:
(1) in a record, signed before, on, or after the birth of the child by each intended parent; or
(2) in an oral agreement entered into before conception by each intended parent.
(b) In the absence of evidence pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, a court may adjudicate a person as the parent of a child if it finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the person resided with the child after birth and undertook to develop a parental relationship with the child. (Added 2017, No. 162 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 2023, No. 175 (Adj. Sess.), § 7, eff. July 1, 2024.)