Legitimation by marriage
If a man has a child with a woman, and he later marries her and accepts the child as his own, that child is considered his legal child.
474.070. Legitimation by marriage. — If a man, having by a woman a child or children, afterward with her and the child or children to be his, they are thereby .
(RSMo 1939 § 315, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 242)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 315; 1919 § 312; 1909 § 341
(1967) This statute applies not only to a child , but also to a child , but sired by a man who was not the mother's husband. The three essential elements of legitimation under this section are actual , intermarriage and . Simpson v. Blackburn (A.), 414 S.W.2d 795.
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