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To: lastchance

Why not?

An annulment states the marriage never existed.

If a child’s parents were never married, the child is illegitimate.

Or do you have some other definition of “illegitimate”?


32 posted on 09/20/2014 7:19:05 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring; lastchance
lastchance is actually correct, the child is "legitimate" meaning that by law (both civil and canon) the child suffers nothing.

I used the term "bastard," which implies something very different. The parents weren't sacramentally married at the time of birth.

36 posted on 09/20/2014 7:27:06 PM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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