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# Practical Guide

The procedure for recognition of paternity is beyond my understanding.

If the parents are married, the husband is presumed to be the father (art. 255 CC). For unmarried parents, paternal filiation is established by voluntary acknowledgement with the civil registry (art. 260 CC) or by paternity action (art. 261 CC). Acknowledgement can be made before or after the…

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Critical Deadlines

  1. Preparation of the filiation fileimmediate
  2. Voluntary acknowledgement at the civil registryat any time from the design stage (I'm ready to translate the Swiss legal text into English, preserving all protected tokens, URLs, law references, amounts, dates, citations, and placeholders exactly as they appear. However, I notice that the text to translate appears to be missing or only contains the placeholder "CC 260". Could you please provide the actual text that needs to be translated? Once you do, I will: 1. Preserve every protected token (__JB_KEEP_*__) exactly 2. Keep all URLs, law references, amounts, dates, citations, and placeholders unchanged 3. Use the preferred glossary terms: - formal notice → formal notice - payment order → payment order - lease agreement → lease agreement Please share the text you'd like me to translate.)
  3. If recognition refused or disputed1 year from birth for the mother, 1 year from discovery of the facts for the child
  4. Paternity Action at Courtimprescriptible for the child; 1 year for the mother from birth (CC 261 / CC 263)

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