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D.C. Code § 19-318: Antenuptial children.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 19. Descent, Distribution, and Trusts. [Enacted title]
- Chapter 3. Intestates’ Estates.
When a man has a child by a woman whom he afterwards marries, the child, if acknowledged by the man, is, in virtue of the marriage and acknowledgment, legitimated and capable in law of inheriting and transmitting heritable property as if born in wedlock.
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