Intestacy - Inheritance Laws - Non-Marital Children - Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection

Authors

Sarah Jane Anderson

Abstract

The United States Supreme Court, after examining a section of the Texas Probate Code which allowed a non-marital child to inherit from his or her mother but denied similar inheritance from the natural father, found it to be discriminatory against the non-marital child.

Reed v. Campbell, No. 85-755, slip op. (U.S. June 11, 1986).

First Page

329

Recommended Citation

Sarah J. Anderson, Intestacy - Inheritance Laws - Non-Marital Children - Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection, 25 Duq. L. Rev. 329 (1987).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol25/iss2/7