Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 30-2-12 (2026)
Divorce for Pregnancy of Wife at Time of Marriage Bastardizes Issue.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
(Code 1852, §1975; Code 1867, §2365; Code 1876, §2699; Code 1886, §2336; Code 1896, §1499; Code 1907, §3807; Code 1923, §7421; Code 1940, T. 34, §34.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1989–1998 · leading case: In Re Anonymous, 720 So. 2d 497 (Ala. 1998).
In Re Anonymous, 720 So. 2d 497 (Ala. 1998). “In Martin , this Court held that § 30-2-12, Ala.Code 1975, providing that a divorce granted on the basis that at the time of the marriage the wife was pregnant by a man other than the husband bastardized the child, was unconstitutional when applied to hold the later-born child…”
McCoy v. McCoy, 549 So. 2d 53 (Ala. 1989). “[2] Note, however, Code 1975, § 30-2-12, which declares illegitimate the child born of a pregnancy that serves as the basis of a divorce granted on the grounds that the woman, at the time of the marriage, was pregnant by someone other than the husband.”
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