26 Disputes about parentage
Child Support Act 1991 (1991 c 48) | Legislation

26  Disputes about parentage

(1)     Where a person who is alleged to be a parent of the child with respect to whom an application for a maintenance assessment [maintenance calculation] has been made [. . .] (“the alleged parent”) denies that he is one of the child's parents, [the] [Secretary of State] shall not make a maintenance assessment [maintenance calculation] on the assumption that the alleged parent is one of the child's parents unless the case falls within one of those set out in subsection (2).

(2)     The Cases are—

[CASE A1

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(a)     the child is habitually resident in England and Wales;

[(b)     the Secretary of State is satisfied that the alleged parent is a man who was married to, or the civil partner of, the child's mother at some time in the period beginning with the conception and ending with the birth of the child;] and

(c)     the child has not been adopted.

CASE A2

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(a)     the child is habitually resident in England and Wales;

(b)     the alleged parent has been registered as father of the child

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