The Legal Time of Conception – Its Influence on the Child’s Paternity and his/her Recognized Rights

Abstract

Establishing the legal time of conception is important both for establishing the paternity of a child inside marriage and outside of marriage and for the child's rights to be recognized from the moment of his conception, as a component of his early capacity of use. This is the reason why the legislator’s intervention is essential in securing the legal time of conception. It is admitted that, by scientific evidence, the presumption of paternity, which has a relative character, can be inverted, meaning to prove the child’s conception within a certain period of the time stipulated by the legal text, or even outside this interval.