PART VII CHILDREN
Presumption of legitimacy

42. Every child born during wedlock or within three hundred and two days after the dissolution of the marriage or the death of the husband, shall be presumed to be legitimate.

Child born during judicial separation

43. If, during the period of a judicial separation, the Court is satisfied that the husband has cohabited with the mother at the time of the possible conception of a child, such child shall be presumed to be legitimate.

Disavowal of child by husband

44. The legitimacy of a child may be contested by the husband suing therefor within one month from the discovery of the child's birth. In every such suit, the child and its mother shall be cited as defendants.

Contesting legitimacy by person entitled to inherit

45.-(1) If the husband dies before the lapse of the period prescribed for contesting the legitimacy of the child or if he has become mentally afflicted or where his place of abode is unkown or is impossible for any other reason to inform him of the birth of the child, then and in every such case, any person entitled to inherit next or jointly with the child can contest the legitimacy within one month after the birth comes to his knowledge.

(2) Where a child is conceived before the solemnization of the marriage, its legitimacy can be contested as in subsection (1) provided, if it is proved that the husband could not possibly be its father even if the husband has acknowledged the child as his own.

Husband estopped from contesting legitimacy, except for fraud

46. If the husband has, directly or indirectly, recognized the legitimacy of the child, or if the period for contesting such legitimacy has lapsed, he cannot contest the legitimacy unless the Court is satisfied that such acknowledgment or lapse has been procured or occasioned by fraud and, in every such case, a further period of one month is allowed as from the date of the discovery of the fraud.

Maintenance and education of children

47. The parents shall, within their respective means, bear the cost of maintenance and education of the children: Provided that, if the parents are destitute or otherwise unable to bear the full cost of maintenance and education or where the Court so thinks fit, the Court can authorize the parents to utilize a child's own income for his maintenance and education.

Religious education

48. The religious education of the child shall be determined by the father or, in his absence or death, by the mother: Provided that, if the mother is not a moslem, the Court shall entrust the religious education to the nearest relation of the child on the father's side.