Overview

• The draft grants biological fathers a six-month window after birth to challenge an existing legal paternity upon proof of biological parentage.
• A proposed recognition freeze would bar any new father acknowledgments during ongoing paternity disputes to prevent procedural abuse.
• Fathers whose initial challenge fails can relitigate if the established social father-child relationship later dissolves.
• Children aged 14 and over would gain veto power to block the recognition of a man claiming paternity.
• The Interior Ministry has drafted parallel measures targeting fraudulent paternity acknowledgments to curb longstanding abuses.