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Status of Children Act 1974
8Presumption of paternity arising from cohabitation
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### 8 Presumption of paternity arising from cohabitation
> *\[Section 8 Subsection (4A) inserted by No. 107 of 1987, s. 4 \]**\[Section 8 Subsection (4B) inserted by No. 107 of 1987, s. 4 \]**\[Section 8 Subsection (4C) inserted by No. 107 of 1987, s. 4 \]*[*\[Section 8 Substituted by No. 42 of 1994, s. 7, Applied:01 Aug 1997\]*](/view/html/inforce/1997-08-01/act-1994-042#GS7@EN) If –
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> > > (a) a child was born to a woman; and
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> > > (b) at any time during the period beginning not earlier than 44 weeks and ending not less than 20 weeks before the birth, the woman cohabited with a man to whom she was not married –
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> the child is presumed to be the child of that man.