Article 277 Federal Criminal Code

From one to six years of imprisonment and fine of from one hundred to one thousand pesos shall be imposed, on those who with the end of altering the civil status incur in any of the following infractions:

I.- Attributing a recently born child to a woman who is not really his mother;

II.- Making a non-verified birth be registered in the offices of the civil status;

III.- On the parents who do not present a child of theirs to the Registry with the purpose of making him lose his civil status, or who falsely declare his death, or present him concealing his names or supposing that the parents are other persons;

IV.- On those who substitute a child for another, or commit concealment of an infant, and

V.- On anyone who usurps the civil status of another with the end of acquiring family rights that do not correspond to him.