If a person, having had a child, shall afterwards intermarry with the mother or father, such child if recognized by both of them, as their own child, jointly or separately, before or after marriage, shall be deemed legitimate.
The issue of marriages prohibited by law, deemed null or void or dissolved by a court shall nevertheless be legitimate.
1978, c. 647.
Structure Code of Virginia
Chapter 2 - Marriage Generally
§ 20-13. License and solemnization required
§ 20-14. By whom license to be issued
§ 20-14.1. Duration of license; issuance of additional licenses
§ 20-16. Issuance of marriage licenses and marriage certificates
§ 20-16.1. Clerk authorized to amend marriage records
§ 20-21. Clerk to furnish attorney for the Commonwealth list of licenses not returned by minister
§ 20-23. Order authorizing ministers to perform ceremony
§ 20-24. Penalty for failure to certify record of marriage
§ 20-25. Persons other than ministers who may perform rites
§ 20-26. Marriage between members of religious society having no minister
§ 20-27. Fee for celebrating marriage
§ 20-28. Penalty for celebrating marriage without license
§ 20-30. Licenses of persons on federal reservations
§ 20-31. Belief of parties in lawful marriage validates certain defects
§ 20-33. Penalty for clerk issuing license contrary to law
§ 20-37. Validation of certain marriages when license issued by clerk of county court
§ 20-37.1. Validation of certain marriages solemnized outside of Commonwealth