Totally random question for the hivemind:
Someone told me just know that in NY, if your parents aren't married when you are born, you are illegitimate. I find this hard to believe, but I have no knowledge or experience to base that on.
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Stephanie - Oct 26, 2007 6:38:24 am PDT #8731 of 10001
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§ ita § - Oct 26, 2007 6:39:06 am PDT #8732 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is there a legal weight to being illegitimate? Inheritance-wise or something? Non-legally, I'd agree with that PoV, but it would vary state to state.
lisah - Oct 26, 2007 6:40:42 am PDT #8733 of 10001
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if your parents aren't married when you are born, you are illegitimate.
Isn't that the definition of illegitimate?
Stephanie - Oct 26, 2007 6:41:07 am PDT #8734 of 10001
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I thought that US law (obviously, not a federal law, but the states in general) had done away with the disctinctions between il/legitimate, although I guess no longer distinguishing doesn't mean the law hasn't been repealed or something like that.
brenda m - Oct 26, 2007 6:41:20 am PDT #8735 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Isn't that what illegitimate means?
Vortex - Oct 26, 2007 6:41:53 am PDT #8736 of 10001
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Isn't that the definition of illegitimate?
but is that a legal definition? and what happens if your parents get married after you're born. Are you still illegitimate?
Stephanie - Oct 26, 2007 6:42:14 am PDT #8737 of 10001
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I thought that "illegitimate children" were considered "not to have a father" meaning that they don't get his name and can't inherit from him.
eta: Vortex says it better than I did. That's what I was getting at - is there any legal significance to being born to unmarried parents?
Sophia Brooks - Oct 26, 2007 6:43:42 am PDT #8738 of 10001
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I am from NY, and my parents were not married when I was born, or ever after. I also do not have a father listed on my birth certificate that I know of. As far as I know I am "illegitimate", but I don't know what this means legally at all.
sumi - Oct 26, 2007 6:51:02 am PDT #8739 of 10001
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Stephanie - Oct 26, 2007 6:55:49 am PDT #8740 of 10001
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This is from wikipedia, in case anyone but me is interested:
Legitimacy was formerly of great consequence, in that only legitimate children could inherit their fathers' estates. In the United States, a series of Supreme Court decisions in the early 1970s abolished most, but not all, of the common-law disabilities of bastardy as violations of the equal-protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
It doesn't totally answer my question, but comes very close.