Tasmanian Consolidated Acts

STATUS OF CHILDREN ACT 1974 - SECT 8B

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

(a) during the lifetime of that person, a prescribed court has –

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

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

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

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

(a) after the death of that person, a prescribed court has –

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

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

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