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Missouri Revisor of Statutes - Revised Statutes of Missouri, RSMo Section 474.070

Citation: Mo. Rev. Stat. § 474.070

Section: 474.070

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âÂ 474.070. Â Â Legitimation by marriage. â If a man, having by a woman a child or children, afterward intermarries with her and recognizes the child or children to be his, they are thereby legitimated. ÂÂ-------- (RSMo 1939 Â§ 315, A.L. 1955 p. 385 Â§ 242) Prior revisions: 1929 Â§ 315; 1919 Â§ 312; 1909 Â§ 341 (1967) This statute applies not only to a child born out of wedlock, but also to a child born in wedlock, but sired by a man who was not the mother's husband. The three essential elements of legitimation under this section are actual paternity, intermarriage and recognition. Simpson v. Blackburn (A.), 414 S.W.2d 795.

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