Article 536

A woman may not remarry unless three hundred and six days have elapsed since the dissolution of a previous marriage by death of her husband.

The provisions of sub-Article (1) shall not apply where the woman:

gives birth to a child after the dissolution of that marriage;

submits to the authority who will celebrate the marriage a declaration by a doctor, made at least thirty days after the death of her husband, stating that she was not pregnant at any moment after that death;

has attained the age of fifty-two years; or

has lived separately from her husband without interruption during the last three hundred and six days prior to his death.