parentage

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Courts in different jurisdictions don’t necessarily have visibility into parentage applications filed elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

Lawyer Sandesh Saravanan, who is representing Mr Ravindran in court, told the BBC that he was given a fresh passport after verification by the police, who were aware of his Sri Lankan parentage.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025

And the 14th Amendment includes the equal protection clause, which also affirms that citizenship does not discriminate based on race, sex, ethnicity, religion, or, as Sotomayor notes, parentage.

From Slate • Jun. 27, 2025

And although she didn’t know it, Estelle was misled about her parentage — her elder sister was actually her mother; the mother who raised them both was her grandmother.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025

The tale of my royal parentage was all that kept me from abject slavery.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson