Cap. 16 Art. 80Possession of status to be proved by series of facts.

(1) Such possession shall be established by a series of facts which, collectively, go to show the connection of filiation and relationship between an individual and the family to which he claims to belong.

(2) Such facts are chiefly the following:

(a) in the case of spouses who have contracted marriage before the coming into force of the Marriage Act and other Laws (Amendment) Act, 2017* that the individual has always borne the surname of the father of whom he claims to be the child;

*The provisions of Act XXIII of 2017 came into force on the 1st of September,