This might help Eamonn O Brien, it's New South Wales statute, but our parents inadvertently declared us dead at birth, they declared their marriage void, thus making us dead bastards, intestate at the time of our death & consequently unable to inherit an estate, so the state claims it...
BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1995:
4 Definitions
(1) In this Act:
"birth" includes a stillbirth.
"child" includes a stillborn child.
Status of children Act 1996:
"married" includes married under a void marriage and under a voidable marriage that has been annulled by a court.
If we apply the maxim: the inclusion of one thing is the exclusion of the alternate, the mechanics of what has been done to us from a legal perspective starts to make sense...
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