NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1131

SENATE BILL 508

 

 

AN ACT TO GIVE PARENTS OF A CHILD LEGITIMATED UNDER THE LAW ALL LEGAL PRIVILEGES AND PARENTAL RIGHTS AS IF SUCH CHILD HAD BEEN BORN IN LAWFUL WEDLOCK.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 49-11, as the same appears in the 1961 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 2A of the General Statutes, is hereby amended by rewriting the first sentence in said Section so that the same shall read as follows:

"Sec. 49-11.  Effects of Legitimation. The effect of legitimation under G.S. 49-10 shall be to impose upon the father and mother all of the lawful parental privileges and rights, as well as all of the obligations which parents owe to their lawful issue, and to the same extent as if said child had been born in wedlock, and to entitle such child by succession, inheritance or distribution, to take real and personal property by, through, and from his or her father and mother as if such child had been born in lawful wedlock."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1963.