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Art. 347. Simulation of Births,
Substitution and Abandonment of a
Legitimate Child
I. Acts Punished:
1. Simulation of Birth:
2. Substitution of one child for another
3. Concealing or abandoning a legitimate child to cause the lose of civil status
II. Principles
A. In simulation and substitution, the child need not be legitimate.
B. The purpose of the acts punished must be to cause the loss of the civil status of the child or to
obtain the civil status of another.
C. Simulation of birth, the act of making it appear that a woman gave birth to a child, must be in the
record of birth/birth certificate. A birth certificate is obtained indicating that the woman gave birth to a
child when in truth she did not.
1. If the simulation is in any other document, the crime is falsification
2. If the woman feigns or pretends to be pregnant and then makes it appear she gave birth to a baby
when in truth the baby is that of another, such pretense is not punished. But when she causes the
birth to be recorded, said act constitute the crime of simulation of birth.
3. Where the woman pretends to be pregnant and to give birth in order to demand support from the