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- An illegitimate child is a child who is born to parents who are not married to each other, or who is born “out of wedlock.” An illegitimate child may also be referred to as a “bastard,” or a “love child.”
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Dec 13, 2016 · An illegitimate child is a child who is born to parents who are not married to each other, or who is born “out of wedlock.” An illegitimate child may also be referred to as a “bastard,” or a “love child.”
Legitimacy, in traditional Western common law, is the status of a child born to parents who are legally married to each other, and of a child conceived before the parents obtain a legal divorce.
illegitimacy, status of children begotten and born outside of wedlock. Many statutes either state, or are interpreted to mean, that usually a child born under a void marriage is not illegitimate if his parents clearly believed that they were legally married.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dec 18, 2019 · Illegitimate children. Whilst the law no longer makes a distinction between legitimate and illegitimate children in terms of your entitlement to inherit from your parent’s estate, being illegitimate does make it more likely that your parent is not included on your birth certificate.
Legal systems traditionally distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate birth, with the illegitimate (‘bastard’) denied recognition.
When their parents or other blood relations pass away intestate (without a valid will), illegitimate children have the same inheritance rights as legitimate children under the Family Law Reform Act of 1987.
In 1959 a new Legitimacy Act extended legitimacy to the children of parents who had not been free to marry at the time of their birth, but who had married subsequently. The Act effectively ended the discrimination against children who had been born as a result of adulterous relationships.
