                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHEN MARRIAGE LEGITIMATES CHILDREN; ISSUE OF MARRIAGES PROHIBITED BY LAW, ETC.,
LEGITIMATE (§ 20-31.1)

If a person, having had a child, shall afterwards intermarry with the mother or
father, such child if recognized by both of them, as their own child, jointly or
separately, before or after marriage, shall be deemed legitimate.
		The issue of marriages prohibited by law, deemed null or void or dissolved by
a court shall nevertheless be legitimate.

HISTORY: 1978, c. 647.