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Originally Posted by seamus View Post
It's semantics/what-ifs really. The argument could be made that since the child is going to be born a legal person (whether dead or alive), then it has full legal rights from 24 weeks and the date of birth is simply a technicality.

Just kicking a football about though, I don't know if such a thing has been argued in court.
Under the Succession Act an unborn child must be "begotten" before the death of the person and born ALIVE in order to succeed. There is no stipulation as to what stage of gestation the child was at at the time of death of the deceased.