legitimate child
Born in wedlock
A legitimate child is one born to parents who are married to each other, or whose parents marry after the birth in jurisdictions that recognize legitimation.
The term belongs primarily to legal and historical contexts, where it determined inheritance rights, citizenship, and social standing.
The distinction has faded in modern Western law, where children generally have equal rights regardless of their parents' marital status: All his children, legitimate and illegitimate, inherited equally under the new statute.
- heirOne who receives legacy
- birthrightEntitlement from origin
- lawfulPermitted by statute
- legal statusOne's position in law
- wedlockState of being spouses
out of wedlock · inheritance · firstborn · next in line · lineage · bloodline · noble birth · parentage · born · surname · family name · estate · primogeniture · dynasty · paternity · recognized · rightful · succession
- offspringbaby, son, daughter, kids, kid
- heirsheir apparent, heir presumptive, heiress, heirs, inheritor
legitimate childillegitimate child
Child of unmarried parents
bastard · bastard child · natural child · love child · by-blow
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