Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

PARENTAGE ACT 2004 - SECT 10

    (1)     A person is conclusively presumed to be a parent of a child if—

        (a)     during the person's life, a court of the Territory, the Commonwealth, a State or another Territory has—

              (i)     found expressly that the person is a parent of the child; or

              (ii)     made a finding that it could not have made unless the person was a parent of the child; and

        (b)     the finding has not been changed, set aside or reversed.

    (2)     A person is presumed to have been a parent of a child if—

        (a)     after the death of the person, a court of the Territory, the Commonwealth, a State or another Territory has—

              (i)     found expressly that the person was a parent of the child; or

              (ii)     made a finding that it could not have made unless the person was a parent of the child; and

        (b)     the finding has not been changed, set aside or reversed.

    (3)     In this section:

"finding", of a court, includes an order or direction of the court.