Missouri Statutes
§ 474.070 — Legitimation by marriage.
Missouri § 474.070
JurisdictionMissouri
Title XXXITRUSTS AND ESTATES OF DECEDENTS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY
Ch. 474Probate Code — Intestate Succession and Wills
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Bluebook
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 474.070 (2026).
Text
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.
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Legislative History
(RSMo 1939 § 315, A.L. 1955 p. 385 § 242)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 315; 1919 § 312; 1909 § 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.
Nearby Sections
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§ 474.010
General rules of descent.§ 474.030
Partial intestacy.§ 474.050
Posthumous children to inherit.§ 474.070
Legitimation by marriage.§ 474.100
Alienage no bar to descent.§ 474.110
Curtesy and dower abolished.Cite This Page — Counsel Stack
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Missouri § 474.070, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/mo/474.070.