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urn: "urn:us-la:civcode:art:193"
article_number: "193"
status: active
heading: "Contestation and establishment of paternity; time period"
breadcrumb: "Book I › Title VII › Chapter 2 › Section 2 › Subsection A"
source_url: "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=109177"
acts_citations_raw: "Acts 2005, No. 192, §1, eff. June 29, 2005."
acts_citations:
  - act_year: 2005
    act_number: 192
    section: 1
    effective_date: 2005-06-29
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---

# Art. 193. Contestation and establishment of paternity; time period

The action by the mother shall be instituted within a peremptive period of one hundred eighty days from the marriage to her present husband and also within two years from the day of the birth of the child, except as may otherwise be provided by law.