NATURAL CHILDREN.
In the phraseology of the English or American law, natural children are children born out of wedlock, or bastards, and are distinguished from legitimate... more ...
Natural children unborn at the date of the will, cannot take under a bequest to the children generally or to the illegitimate children of A B by Mary C; because a natural child cannot take as the issue of a particular person, ...
4. Natural children owe alimony to their father or mother, if they are in need, and if they themselves have the means of providing it. Id. art. 256.
In some of the states the English rule that natural children have no inheritable blood has been greatly modified. In Louisiana, if duly acknowledged, they may inherit from both father and mother in the absence of lawful issue.
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