Application to the Supreme Court for recognition as father of illegitimate infant
5 Application to the Supreme Court for recognition as father of illegitimate infant
A person who claims paternity of an infant whose parents were not married to each other at the time of its conception and have not since married each other may make an application to the court for an order that he be recognized as the father of the infant for the purposes of this Act.
Upon an application under subsection (1), the court may, if it is satisfied that the applicant is the father of the infant and that he is a fit and proper person to have guardianship and custody of the infant, make the order applied for.
A person who makes an application under subsection (1) may, at the same time as he makes that application, make any other application under this Act that he would be entitled to make if he were the father of the infant, but the court shall not hear that other application unless it first makes an order under subsection (2).
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