Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013

Common law presumption

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2(1)Section 11 does not extend the common law presumption that a child born to a woman during her marriage is also the child of her husband.

(2)Accordingly, where a child is born to a woman during her marriage to another woman, that presumption is of no relevance to the question of who the child’s parents are.