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  "urn": "urn:us-la:civcode:art:186",
  "article_number": "186",
  "heading": "Presumption if child is born after divorce or after death of husband; effect of disavowal",
  "text": "If a child is born within three hundred days from the day of the termination of a marriage and his mother has married again before his birth, the first husband is presumed to be the father.\n\nIf the first husband, or his successor, obtains a judgment of disavowal of paternity of the child, the second husband is presumed to be the father. The second husband, or his successor, may disavow paternity if he institutes a disavowal action within a peremptive period of one year from the day that the judgment of disavowal obtained by the first husband is final and definitive.",
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      "level": "book",
      "number": "I",
      "name": "Of Persons"
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      "level": "title",
      "number": "VII",
      "name": "Parent and Child"
    },
    {
      "level": "chapter",
      "number": "2",
      "name": "Filiation by Proof of Maternity or Paternity"
    },
    {
      "level": "section",
      "number": "2",
      "name": "Proof of Paternity"
    },
    {
      "level": "subsection",
      "number": "A",
      "name": "The Presumption of Paternity of Husband; Disavowal of Paternity; Contestation; Establishment of Paternity"
    }
  ],
  "breadcrumb": "Book I › Title VII › Chapter 2 › Section 2 › Subsection A",
  "acts_citations": [
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      "act_year": 1976,
      "act_number": 430,
      "section": 1,
      "effective_date": null,
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      "role": "enactment"
    },
    {
      "act_year": 2005,
      "act_number": 192,
      "section": 1,
      "effective_date": "2005-06-29",
      "effective_date_raw": "June 29, 2005",
      "role": "amendment"
    }
  ],
  "acts_citations_raw": "Amended by Acts 1976, No. 430, §1; Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005.",
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