New York Marriage Laws | § 24

New York Laws - Domestic Relations 24

Effect of marriage on legitimacy of children

1. A child heretofore or hereafter born of parents who prior or subsequent to the birth of such child shall have entered into a civil or religious marriage, or shall have consummated a common-law marriage where such marriage is recognized as valid, in the manner authorized by the law of the place where such marriage takes place, is the legitimate child of both birth parents notwithstanding that such marriage is void or voidable or has been or shall hereafter be annulled or judicially declared void. 2. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the construction of any will or other instrument executed before the time this act shall take effect or any right or interest in property or right of action vested or accrued before the time this act shall take effect, or to limit the operation of any judicial determination heretofore made containing express provision with respect to the legitimacy, maintenance or custody of any child, or to affect any adoption proceeding heretofore commenced, or limit the effect of any order or orders entered in such adoption proceeding.

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§ 1 Short title
§ 2 Definitions
§ 14 Town and city clerks to issue marriage licenses; form
§ 5 Incestuous and void marriages
§ 6 Void marriages
§ 8 Marriage after divorce
§ 10 Marriage a civil contract
§ 7 Voidable marriages
§ 11-B Registration of persons performing marriage ceremonies in the city of New York
§ 11 By whom a marriage must be solemnized
§ 12 Marriage, how solemnized
§ 13-AA Test to determine the presence of sickle cell anemia
§ 13-D Duty of clerk issuing marriage license
§ 14-A Town and city clerks to issue certificates of marriage registration; form
§ 15 Duty of town and city clerks
§ 15-A Marriages of minors under eighteen years of age
§ 16 False statements and affidavits
§ 17 Clergyman or officer violating article; penalty
§ 18 Clergymen or officer, when protected
§ 19-A Marriages on vessels; reports and records
§ 19 Records to be kept by town and city clerks
§ 20-A Certified transcripts of records; state commissioner of health may furnish
§ 21 Forms and books to be furnished
§ 22 Penalty for violation
§ 25 License, when to be obtained
§ 10-A Parties to a marriage
§ 24 Effect of marriage on legitimacy of children
§ 10-B Religious exception
§ 11-C Marriage officers
§ 15-B Temporary provisions authorizing issuance of marriage license, upon court order, without consent of a parent in armed forces of United St...
§ 20 Records to be kept by the state department of health and the city clerk of the city of New York
§ 20-B Certification of marriage; state commissioner of health may furnish
§ 23 Supervision of and inspection of town and city clerks' records by state commissioner of health
§ 11-A Duty of city clerk in certain cities of the first class; facsimile signature of said clerk authorized
§ 13 Marriage licenses
§ 13-C Twenty-four hour provision waived in certain cases
§ § 13-b Time within which marriage may be solemnized
§ 13-B Time within which marriage may be solemnized
§ 11-d One-day marriage officiant license