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2019 Delaware Code
Title 13 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 13. Illegitimate Children
Subchapter I General Provisions
§ 1301 Legitimating child conceived out of wedlock.
Universal Citation: 13 DE Code § 1301 (2019)
A child conceived out of wedlock shall be legitimate if the parents shall marry before the birth of the child or if they shall marry after adjudication or acknowledgment of parentage after the birth of the child, or upon acknowledgment of the paternity made in writing by the parents, if both are living or by the father if the mother is not living and filed in the Office of Vital Statistics according to § 8-302 of this title or § 3121 of Title 16.
11 Del. Laws, c. 243, § 1; 24 Del. Laws, c. 224, § 1; Code 1915, § 3087; 32 Del. Laws, c. 184, § 7; Code 1935, § 3573; 13 Del. C. 1953, § 1301; 69 Del. Laws, c. 296, § 21; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.
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