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APPENDIX 2. Excerpt from the
Status of Children Act 1969

5 Presumptions as to parenthood

(1) A child born to a woman during her marriage, or within 10 months after the marriage has been dissolved by death or otherwise, shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be presumed to be the child of its mother and he husband, or former husband, as the case may be.

[(2) Every question of fact that arises in applying subsection (1) of this section shall be decided on a balance of probabilities.

(3) This section shall apply in respect of every child, whether born before or after the commencement of this Act, and whether born in New Zealand or not, and whether or not his father or mother has ever been domiciled in New Zealand.]


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