Chapter III: Actions relating to parentage

Where a civil registrar is in possession of a prenatal acknowledgement of paternity whose statements concerning its author are contradicted by the information concerning the father communicated to him by the declarant, the civil registrar with jurisdiction under article 55 shall draw up the birth record in the light of the information provided by the declarant. He immediately notifies the public prosecutor, who raises the paternity dispute on the basis…

When allowing the action to be contested, the court may, in the interests of the child, determine the terms of the child’s relationship with the person who raised the child.