crvs:Legitimation
The act by which a child previously born outside marriage acquires the legal status of a child born within marriage, typically following the subsequent marriage of the biological parents. Relevant in jurisdictions where the status of the child still varies by marital context.
https://publicschema.org/crvs/Legitimation
Supertypes
Properties
| Property | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| event_date from VitalEvent | date | The date on which the vital event (birth, death, marriage, etc.) occurred. Disti... |
| event_date_estimated from VitalEvent | boolean | Whether the event date is an estimate rather than a known exact date. Common for... |
| event_location from VitalEvent | concept:Location | The specific place where the vital event occurred (for example, the hospital of ... |
| registration_number from VitalEvent | string | The unique number assigned by the civil registration authority when the vital ev... |
| registration_date from VitalEvent | date | The date on which the vital event was officially registered with the civil regis... |
| registration_location from VitalEvent | concept:Location | The civil registration office where the vital event was registered. Often a muni... |
| registration_type from VitalEvent | string (crvs/registration-type) | The regime under which the registration was processed: current (within the legal... |
| registrar from VitalEvent | concept:Person | The civil registration officer who recorded the event. In many jurisdictions thi... |
| informant from VitalEvent | concept:Person | The person who declares the vital event to the civil registration authority. Typ... |
| registration_status from VitalEvent | string (crvs/registration-status) | The lifecycle state of the registration process for this vital event: whether it... |
| record_id from Event | string | The identifier assigned to this record by the system that created it. Used to re... |
| child | concept:Person | The child whose birth, adoption, or legitimation is recorded in this event. |
| parents | concept:Parent | The parents of the child, each captured as a Parent link entity that combines a ... |
| birth_ref | concept:Birth | A reference to the Birth record of the child whose parentage is being recognized... |
| judgment_date | date | The date of the court judgment that granted a divorce, annulment, adoption, pate... |
| judgment_reference | string | The case number or other identifier of the court judgment that ordered this vita... |
| court | string | The court that issued the judgment for a divorce, annulment, adoption, paternity... |
Evidence
| Standard | Equivalent | Match |
|---|---|---|
| OpenCRVS v1 GraphQL | No v1 equivalent | none |
| Legitimation is not modelled in OpenCRVS v1 core. Like paternity recognition, it would be handled operationally as a correction on an existing birth record rather than as a distinct event type. | ||