crvs:Legitimation

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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.

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Supertypes

VitalEvent

Properties

Property Type Definition
Event date from VitalEvent date
The date on which the vital event (birth, death, marriage, etc.) occurred. Distinct from the registration date, which is when the event was recorded by a registration authority.
Event date estimated from VitalEvent boolean
Whether the event date is an estimate rather than a known exact date. Common for late-registered births or deaths where the precise date is not documented.
Event location from VitalEvent concept:Location
The specific place where the vital event occurred (for example, the hospital of birth or the place of death). Distinct from the registration location, which is where the event was recorded.
Registration date from VitalEvent date
The date on which the vital event was officially registered with the civil registration authority. May be later than the event date, especially for late registrations.
Registration location from VitalEvent concept:Location
The civil registration office where the vital event was registered. Often a municipal or district-level registry distinct from the place of occurrence.
Registration type from VitalEvent string (crvs/registration-type)
The regime under which the registration was processed: current (within the legal window), late, court-ordered, or reconstruction of a lost record. Affects legal weight and downstream uses.
Registrar from VitalEvent concept:crvs/Person includes Parent
The civil registration officer who recorded the event. In many jurisdictions this is the officer whose signature appears on the acte.
Informant from VitalEvent concept:crvs/Person includes Parent
The person who declares the vital event to the civil registration authority. Typically a parent for births, a relative or medical professional for deaths, or the parties themselves for marriages.
Registration status from VitalEvent string (crvs/registration-status)
The lifecycle state of the registration process for this vital event: whether it is declared, pending validation, registered, rejected, cancelled, or has been corrected or archived.
Identifiers from Event concept:Identifier
Identifiers carried by this entity, such as national ID numbers, program IDs, or identifiers asserted by an identity document.
Child concept:crvs/Person includes Parent The child whose birth, adoption, or legitimation is recorded in this event.
Parents concept:crvs/Parent
The parents of the child, each captured as a Parent link entity that combines a Person with a parental role-nature (biological, gestational, legal, or adoptive).
Birth record reference concept:crvs/Birth
A reference to the Birth record of the child whose parentage is being recognized, legitimized, or otherwise modified. Links the current event back to the original birth record.
Judgment date date
The date of the court judgment that granted a divorce, annulment, adoption, paternity recognition, or other court-ordered vital event. Distinct from the registration date.
Judgment reference string
The case number or other identifier of the court judgment that ordered this vital event. Enables retrieval of the underlying judicial record.
Court string
The court that issued the judgment for a divorce, annulment, adoption, paternity recognition, or other court-ordered vital event.

Evidence

Standard Equivalent Match
OpenCRVS v2 event service No v1 equivalent none
Legitimation is not modelled in OpenCRVS v2 core. Like paternity recognition, it would be handled operationally as a correction on an existing birth record rather than as a distinct event type.

Referenced by this concept

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