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Article 277

RA 386 · Civil Code of the PhilippinesKey provision

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In case the recognition is made by only one of the parents, it shall be presumed that the child is natural, if the parent recognizing it had legal capacity to contract marriage at the time of the conception.

Official text — RA 386

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