Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Supreme Courts (Belgium) - Cour Constitutionelle

Date: 02/03/2011

Subject: The decision has stated the unconstitutionality, as well as the incompatibility with the norms of the ECHR, of article 318, paragraph 1, of the civil code, where it provides that the “possession d’état” amounts to an absolute obstacle to the paternity dispute to contest the paternity of the mother’s husband

Parties: Tribunal de première instance de Louvain

Original language: Belgian

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 7 Privacy

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