ENACTMENT NO. 15 OF 1992
ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW ENACTMENT 1992

PART VIII - MISCELLANEOUS
Legitimacy



Section 115. Ascription of paternity.

Where a child is born to a woman who is married to a man six qamariah months or more from the date of the marriage or within four qamariah years after dissolution of the marriage either by the death of the man or by divorce, the woman not having remarried, the nasab or paternity of the child is established in the man, but the man may, by way of li’an or imprecation, disavow or disclaim the child before the Court.




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