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Section 110

Ascription of paternity

of Islamic Family Law (Federal Territory) Act 1984

ActIn forceProvision 112 of 138
Section 110

Where a child is born to a woman who is married to a man more than six qamariah months from the date of the marriage or within four qamariah years after dissolution of the marriage either by the death of the man or by divorce, the woman not having remarried, the nasab or paternity of the child is established in the man, but the man may, by way of li’an or imprecation, disavow or disclaim the child before the Court.