Section 165 - Presumption of legitimacy. Cap. M7 LFN. 2004.

Without prejudice to section 84 of the Matrimonial Cases Act, where a person was born during the continuance of a valid marriage between his mother and any man, or within 280 days after dissolution of the marriage, the mother remaining unmarried, the court shall presume that the person in question is the legitimate child of that man.