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stop the term Legal Issue from being considered at all in probates. It is an extremely discriminative term.

Created by S.R. on March 28, 2015

My petition is to stop the extremely discriminative term from the mid 20th century (legal issue) from being considered in probates. This term meant that only children created in wedlock were considered children. If a child was created out of wedlock then they had no rights as a child to inherit from the parent under Massachusetts probate law. The Supreme Court ruled that it could no longer be used from the early 1980s however I do not think that it should be allowed to be considered no matter what year that it was written. We are required to pay child support etc. for any of our children today no matter if they have been created duing wedlock or not. How can we still allow this term to be considered if it was written as part of a probate in the 1950s? I want to ban it from being considered

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