Baby Moses Information

The "Baby Moses Law" allows a parent of a baby younger than 60 days old to turn over the baby to a designated emergency infant care provider. The law protects parents from criminal prosecution when they deliver an unharmed child to a designated emergency infant care provider.

BABY MOSES VOLUNTARY FORM

When you place your child in our custody, we will offer you a voluntary form to fill out and provide medical information for your child. You do not have to provide your name or any information that you do not wish to share. This form is only to establish medical background information on the baby.

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The "Baby Moses Law" is the common name of a law authorizing a designated emergency infant care provider to take possession of a child appearing to be 60-days-old or younger from the child's parent, if the parent does not express intent to return for the child. You can find this law in the Texas Family code, Chapter 262, SubChapter D. Emergency Possession of Certain Abandoned Children. One purpose of the law is to encourage parents who abandon their children to do so with a designated emergency infant care provider rather than at a dangerous location. The law also protects parents from criminal prosecution when they deliver an unharmed child to a designated emergency infant care provider.