In family law cases in North Carolina, parental rights can seem particularly complex, especially when children are born to unmarried couples. Navigating this terrain involves a legal process known as ...

Legitimation is the process by which a child born out of wedlock may be legitimated and enjoy the same status and rights as a legitimate child. It takes place when the parents of the child who were ...

Who needs government? A Tea Party protest on tax day in 2010 in New York. Mary Altaffer/AP Photo Elections normally decide who is to govern. This upcoming election is about the very legitimacy of the ...

For a people who have traditionally viewed the state as a spectacle and frequently turned their backs to it, Indians have rather swiftly become state-centric. We constantly talk and read about it, ...

Ruggero Davis signed his name to his son's birth certificate. He provides financial support and sees the 5-year-old boy practically every day, he said during a recent Ledger-Enquirer interview. Yet, ...

Georgia remains the only state that still requires this extra step of achieving the legal action legitimation for unmarried fathers after paternity. "When our children look back on this moment, let it ...