determination of a child's paternity
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child — n pl chil·dren 1: a son or daughter of any age and usu. including one formally adopted compare issue ◇ The word child as used in a statute or will is often held to include a stepchild, an illegitimate child, a person for whom one stands in loco… … Law dictionary
Paternity (law) — In law, Paternity is the legal acknowledgment of the parental relationship between a man and a child usually based on several factors.Under common law, a child born to the wife during a marriage is usually presumed to be the husband s child. This … Wikipedia
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PARENT AND CHILD — STATUS OF THE CHILD In Jewish law, there is no discrimination against a child because of the mere fact that he is born out of lawful wedlock. While the said fact may complicate the question of establishing paternity, once the identity of the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
filiation — fil·i·a·tion /ˌfi lē ā shən/ n [Late Latin filiatio relationship of a son and father, from Latin filius son] 1: a legal relationship of a parent and esp. a father and child that creates rights and obligations used to help prove filiation in a… … Law dictionary
MAMZER — (Heb. מַמְזֵר), usually translated as bastard. Definition If she cannot contract a legally valid marriage to this man, but can contract a legally valid marriage to others, her offspring (from the former) is a mamzer. Such is the case when a man… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Surrogacy — is an arrangement in which a woman carries and delivers a child for another couple or person. This woman may be the child s genetic mother (called traditional surrogacy), or she may carry the pregnancy to delivery after having an embryo, to which … Wikipedia
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parentage — I noun ancestry, antecedents, birth, bloodline, derivation, descent, extraction, family, family connection, family tree, filiation, forebears, forefathers, foreparents, former generations, genealogical tree, genealogy, genesis, genus, house, line … Law dictionary
