Title VI — Paternity and Filiation

Article 166

EO 209 · Family Code of the Philippines

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The presumption of legitimacy (Art. 164) can only be overturned by proof of the physical impossibility of access between the husband and wife during the first 120 days of the 300 days preceding the child's birth — meaning the husband could not possibly have been the biological father.

Official text — EO 209

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