One live-in-relation couple sent me a box of sweet to share their happiness. Yesterday they were blessed with birth of a baby girl.
I wondered about the legal rights of the baby girl.
1) Should we call her a legitimate child or illegitimate child?
Law so far treated such "Children born out of wedlock" as illegitimate children.
2) Law is yet to formulate civil rights of Live in Relationship people.
3) But Supreme Court has said it is not illegal if two adult start living together with their free will. So the children of such couple should not be branded as "Illegitimate" children.
4) Another complicated question comes up : What will be property rights of such children in ancestral property of Husband side? If my impression is not incorrect one such case is referred to and is pending before larger bench of Supreme Court.
It seems that Society is moving faster.
Law is slow to catch up.
Haresh Raichura
29/8/2014
