ENACTMENT NO. 2 OF 1985
ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW (STATE OF PENANG) ENACTMENT 1985

PART VIII - MISCELLANEOUS
Legitimacy



Section 110. 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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