Cosgrove v. Hughes

This case presents issues concerning the nature of *740“acknowledgment” under the intestacy statute, G. L. c. 190, § 7, as amended through St. 1993, c. 460, § 59, which provides in relevant part that:

“A person bom out of wedlock whose parents have intermarried and whose father has acknowledged him as his child or has been adjudged his father under chapter two hundred seventy-three, chapter two hundred and nine C or under similar law of another jurisdiction shall be deemed legitimate and shall be entitled to take the name of his parents to the same extent as if bom in lawful wedlock. If a decedent…