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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:186"
article_number: "186"
status: active
heading: "Presumption if child is born after divorce or after death of husband; effect of disavowal"
breadcrumb: "Book I › Title VII › Chapter 2 › Section 2 › Subsection A"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=109101"
acts_citations_raw: "Amended by Acts 1976, No. 430, §1; Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 1976
    act_number: 430
    section: 1
    role: enactment
  - act_year: 2005
    act_number: 192
    section: 1
    effective_date: 2005-06-29
    role: amendment
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# Art. 186. Presumption if child is born after divorce or after death of husband; effect of disavowal

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.

If 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.