Section 69Q — Family Law Act 1975 (Cth)

If:

(a) a child is born to a woman; and

(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;

the child is presumed to be a child of the man.

Related sections

• s 69M — Jurisdiction is additional to other jurisdiction
• s 69N — Transfer of proceedings from courts of summary jurisdiction in certain cases
• s 69P — Presumptions of parentage arising from marriage
• s 69R — Presumption of parentage arising from registration of birth
• s 69S — Presumptions of parentage arising from findings of courts
• s 69T — Presumption of paternity arising from acknowledgments

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