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Constitutional review ruling (C)February 27, 2001Full bench

C-243 de 2001

The official text of this ruling is in Spanish and is shown as published by the Colombian authorities.

Reporting justice Rodrigo Escobar Gil

✓Claimant Armando Arciniegas Niño

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Topic · hard data
Investigacion De Paternidad. Deber De Practicar La Prueba Genética
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Topics and subtopics of the ruling

✓What the ruling decides and analyzes, as indexed by the Court's case-law reporter's office. Each topic links to every decision that addresses it.

Principio De Libertad De La Prueba
  • Superación de la tarifa legal
Dignidad Humana
  • Relaciones paterno filiales
Genetica
  • Avances científicos
Investigacion De Paternidad
  • Pruebas indirectas
  • Avances científicos
  • Exámenes científicos
  • Deber de practicar la prueba genética
  • Pruebas científicas
Norma Legal
  • Interpretación histórica evolutiva
Presuncion De Paternidad
  • Carácter legal
  • Excepción
  • Prueba pericial
  • Excepción por pluralidad de relaciones
Paternidad
  • Prueba científica
  • Prueba pericial genética
Presuncion Legal
  • Admisión de prueba en contrario
11 topics · 19 subtopics · source: case-law reporter's topic index
Case-law reporter's summary (what was argued and decided, in prose)

Ley 75 de 1968.

Art. 6 num. 4 inc. 3 (p.).

Filiacion.

Creacion del icbf.

Presuncion de paternidad natural.

Declaracion judicial.

Concepcion.

Reconocimiento de la personalidad juridica.

Pluralidad de relaciones sexuales de la mujer.

Pruebas geneticas.

Exequible

Case-law reporter's text · normalized for reading (all caps → sentence case)
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What it decided

Holdings on Ley 45/36. Hard data, verified against the operative part — citable.

Art. 4Ley 45/36UPHELD
Art. 6Ley 75/68 «numeral 4, inciso 3»UPHELD
2 holdings · source: operative part of the ruling
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Operative part (Resuelve)

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  1. en nombre del pueblo y por mandato de la Constitucion,
  2. R E S U E LV E
  3. Declarar EXEQUIBLE, la expresion "no se hara la declaracion si el demandado demuestra..., que en la misma epoca la madre tuvo relaciones de la misma indole con otro u otros hombres", contenida en el inciso 3o del numeral 4o del articulo 6o de la Ley 75 de 1968.
Verbatim text · source: operative part of the ruling
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How it connects

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The indexed topics and subtopics of this decision are above, in Topics and subtopics of the ruling.