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Legitimacy (law)
In the common law tradition, legitimacy describes the status of children who are born to parents that are legally married, or shortly after a marriage ends through death or divorce. Its opposite is the status of being illegitimate, a person born to unmarried parents, or to a married woman but whose father was someone other than her husband.
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