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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:189"
article_number: "189"
status: active
heading: "Time limit for disavowal by the husband"
breadcrumb: "Book I › Title VII › Chapter 2 › Section 2 › Subsection A"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=109134"
acts_citations_raw: "Amended by Acts 1976, No. 430, §1; Acts 1999, No. 790, §1; Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005; Acts 2016, No. 309, §1."
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  - act_year: 1976
    act_number: 430
    section: 1
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  - act_year: 1999
    act_number: 790
    section: 1
    role: amendment
  - act_year: 2005
    act_number: 192
    section: 1
    effective_date: 2005-06-29
    role: amendment
  - act_year: 2016
    act_number: 309
    section: 1
    role: amendment
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# Art. 189. Time limit for disavowal by the husband

The action for disavowal of paternity is subject to a liberative prescription of one year. This prescription commences to run from the day of the birth of the child, or the day the husband knew or should have known that he may not be the biological father of the child, whichever occurs later.

Nevertheless, if the husband lived separate and apart from the mother continuously during the three hundred days immediately preceding the birth of the child, this prescription does not commence to run until the husband is notified in writing that a party in interest has asserted that the husband is the father of the child.