Who can request an exhumation of a body?
Apparently, an illegitimate child can’t. The Health and Safety Code §711.004 allows a district court to order an exhumation if requested by certain people including the spouse or the children. That section may not apply to illegitimate children unless money is involved. In a case decided in 2010, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that a [...]
Do illegitimate children have inheritance rights?
Before 1991, illegitimate children in Texas could only inherit from their biological parents if the parents eventually got married or if the father acknowledged the child through some authorized manner. The Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional those statutes that limit illegitimate children’s inheritance rights . However, there are still many problems for illegitimate children to [...]
Do you get an inheritance if you never knew your father? Or mother?
Occasionally, the situation will arise were a child is born but never knows one of his parents. This may happen because the mother and father were never married. It could happen because the mother and father were married but for whatever reason, the father left before the child was born or shortly thereafter. It could [...]
