39 N.C. App. 201 - Myers v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
August 1982
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Carter v. Carter
Most-quoted passages
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“Legitimation by subsequent marriage. — When the mother of any child born out of wedlock and the reputed father of such child shall intermarry or shall have intermarried at any time after the birth of such child, the child shall, in all respects after such intermarriage be deemed and held to be legitimate ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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