Please refer to the Comptroller's publication Texas Property Tax Exemptions (PDF) for more information about these exemptions. Most of these exemptions have specific application forms that can be found through the exemption forms link in the box above.
The fetal DNA in a mother's blood can already reveal an infant's sex and other traits inherited from the father. But picking out a fetus's entire genome from its mother's is much tougher, says Dennis Lo, a chemical pathologist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who led the study.
Fathers are required to support his child even if he was never married to the child's mother. If the father does not admit he is the child's parent, fatherhood can also be proven with paternity tests. When a mother is not married, it may not be clear who the father is.