Presumptions as to parenthood

(1) A child born to a woman during her marriage, or within ten months after the marriage has been dissolved by death or otherwise, shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be presumed to have been born of that marriage, but this presumption may be rebutted by evidence to the contrary. 28 (2) Subsection (1) of this section, shall not apply if, during the whole of the time within which the child must have been conceived, the mother and her husband were living apart under an oral or written agreement for separation, or under a decree or order of separation, or decree nisi of divorce, made by a court or other competent authority in Belize or elsewhere. (3) Subsection (1) of this section, shall not apply where a child is born within ten months of the dissolution of the marriage of its mother and after she has married again, and in such case there shall be no presumption as between the husband of the mother and her former husband that either is the father of the child, and the case shall be determined on the probabilities in each case.