Malaysia legislation
Section 10
Section 10
Provisions as to persons legitimated by extraneous law
(2)
All the provisions of this Act relating to legitimated persons and to the taking of interests in property by or in succession to a legitimated person and the spouse, children and remoter issue of a legitimated person shall apply in the case of a person recognized as having been legitimated under this section, or who would, had he survived the marriage of his parents, have been so recognized; and accordingly this Act shall have effect as if references therein to a legitimated person included a person so recognized as having been legitimated.
Right of illegitimate child and mother of illegitimate child to succeed on intestacy of the other