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STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1974 - SECT 8

Presumption of paternity arising from cohabitation

If –
(a) a child was born to a woman; and
(b) at any time during the period beginning not earlier than 44 weeks and ending not less than 20 weeks before the birth, the woman cohabited with a man to whom she was not married –
the child is presumed to be the child of that man.



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