A Study on the evidences of proving maternal filiation in Iranian law

In Iranian civil code, there are not special regulations on proving maternal filiation and this matter, principally has been put subject to general provisions of proving claims. So a person who wants to establish her/his legitimate filiation to a woman having husband, ought to produce relevant evidences. Such evidences regard two different but related points: Woman’s accouchement and the conformity of the child who was born from her with the claimant of filiation. As the pregnancy and accouchement fall in legal events classification, they can be proved by any Legal evidences. The most common evidences in this respect consistin: identification document, confession, testimony, hearsay and many presumptions of fact. Of course the effectiveness of some of these evidences especially confession to filiation, is subject to particular conditions stipulated in civil code.

Filiation, Mother, Evidence, Confession, Identification document, Testimony, Hearsay, Presumption.