Expanding Rights of the Illegitimate, The
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Authors
Leu, C. Dennis
Issue Date
1970
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3
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|The illegitimate has long occupied a disfavored position in the law. In virtually every area of our jurisprudence in which the illegitimate has attempted to assert rights, he has been met with either legislation or court decision which have given him, at best, an inferior legal status. Whether the legal interest advanced has been in the area of child support, wrongful death, inheritance, workmen's compensation, public housing, custody and visitation, or legal name, the illegitimate has consistently been denied rights perfunctorily accorded the legitimate child. Although such denials have been justified as being required by the dictates of history and paramount state interest, the underlying foundation would appear to be a judicial and legislative reluctance to place the imprimatur of legal sanction upon the product of a relationship which both the law and traditional morality condemns...
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3 Creighton L. Rev. 135 (1969-1970)
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Creighton University School of Law