Utah Code § 81-5-705

Limitation on husband's dispute of paternity
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(1) Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (2), the husband of a wife who gives birth to a
child by means of assisted reproduction may not challenge the husband's paternity of the child
unless:
(a) within two years after learning of the birth of the child the husband commences a proceeding
to adjudicate the husband's paternity; and
(b) the tribunal finds that the husband did not consent to the assisted reproduction, before or after
the birth of the child.
(2) A proceeding to adjudicate paternity may be maintained at any time if the tribunal determines
that:
(a) the husband did not provide sperm for, or before or after the birth of the child consent to,
assisted reproduction by the husband's wife;
(b) the husband and the birth mother of the child have not cohabited since the probable time of
assisted reproduction; and
(c) the husband never openly treated the child as the husband's own.
(3) The limitation provided in this section applies to a marriage declared invalid after assisted
reproduction.

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