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# Practical Guide
I contest the paternity
The action to disavow paternity allows the husband to contest the presumption of paternity (art. 256 CC). The time limit is one year from knowledge of the birth and of the fact that he is not the father, or from knowledge of the fact that a third party cohabited with the mother during the period of conception,…
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- CC 256c — Limitation period for the action in disavowal
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