C-800 de 2000
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Reporting justice José Gregorio Hernández Galindo
✓Claimant Alexander Diaz Umaña
Topics and subtopics of the ruling
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- Mayor o menor brevedad de términos
- Diversas formas de constituirla
- Mayor o menor brevedad de los términos
- Es contraria a la Constitución la distinción entre legítima e ilegítima
- Competencia para fijar término de caducidad de acciones
- Admisión prueba en contrario
- Brevedad
Case-law reporter's summary (what was argued and decided, in prose)
C.c.
Art. 217 parc.
Impugnacion de la filiacion por parte del marido dentro de los 60 dias siguientes al conocimiento del parto.
Legitimidad.
Exequible salvo una expresion.
What it decided
Holdings on Ley 57/87. Hard data, verified against the operative part — citable.
Operative part (Resuelve)
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- Declarar EXEQUIBLES las expresiones acusadas, pertenecientes al inciso
- primero. del artículo 217 del Código Civil, en el entendido de que la palabra "legitimidad", debe interpretarse y aplicarse como referida a la paternidad del marido. Bajo cualquiera otra interpretación, el inciso demandado se declara INEXEQUIBLE.
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