Constitutional Law - Equal Protection - Suspect Classification - Illegitimacy - Intestate Succession

Authors

Lauren Revoldt Fertelmes

Abstract

The United States Supreme Court has held a state intestate succession statute which denies illegitimate children the right to inherit from their father's estate to be a violation of equal protection.

Trimble v. Gordon, 430 U.S. 762 (1977).

First Page

469

Recommended Citation

Lauren R. Fertelmes, Constitutional Law - Equal Protection - Suspect Classification - Illegitimacy - Intestate Succession, 16 Duq. L. Rev. 469 (1977).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol16/iss3/13