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CurrentPresumptions of paternity arising from cohabitation
Part IIStatus of children
5 Presumptions of paternity arising from cohabitation
If:
(a)
a child is born to a woman; and
(b) at any time during the period beginning not earlier than 44 weeks and ending not later than 20 weeks before the birth, the woman cohabited with a man to whom she was not married,
the child is presumed to be a child of the man.
This Act’s bill:Second reading speech
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