With this, a law dating from the 19th century is updated. Now, the Government must enact it and turn it into the Law of the Republic.
In third constitutional process and with 145 votes in favor, the Chamber of the Chamber of Deputies approved this Tuesday – and passed into law – the bill that makes it easier for women to contract new marriages immediately after divorcing.
The text updates the current law of the 19th century, which defined a period of 270 days where women could not marry based on an eventual “presumption of paternity of children that the woman could have in her second marriage.”
Specifically, the initiative establishes that if a woman successively contracts two marriages and gives birth to a boy after the second one, the current husband’s son will be presumed.
That will be “Whatever the term that has elapsed since the dissolution of the first marriage, without prejudice to the right of the current spouse to ignore this paternity, if the anticipated cases are met ”.
If this scenario is configured, the spouse of the antecedent marriage will be presumed father, “provided that the child was born within three hundred days from its dissolution.”
This new regulation It will also apply to successive civil union agreements and to marriages that are followed by unions, or vice versa.
