WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR 243

one state is hereby declared to be liable for the support of Ms
wife and any child or children of his under seventeen
EIGHTEEN years of age and any other dependent residing
or found in the same state or in another state having substan-
tially similar or reciprocal laws, and, if possessed of sufficient
means or able to earn such means, may be required to pay for
their suppport a fair and raesonable sum according to his
means, as may be determined by the court having jurisdiction
of the respondent in a proceeding instituted under this Article.

(b) A mother in one state is hereby declared to be liable
for the support of her child or children under seventeen
EIGHTEEN years of age residing or found in the same state
or in another state having substantially similar or reciprocal
laws, whenever the father of such child or children is dead,
or cannot be found, or is incapable of supporting such child or
children, and, if she is possessed of sufficient means or able to
earn such means, she may be required to pay for the support
of such child or children a fair and reasonable sum accord-
ing to her means, as may be determined by the court having
jurisdiction of the respondent in a proceeding instituted un-
der this Article.

(c) The parents in one state are hereby declared to be sever-
ally liable for the support of a child seventeen EIGHTEEN
years of age or older residing or found in the same state or in
another state having substantially similar or reciprocal laws,
whenever such child is PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY DIS-
ABLED AND unable to maintain himself and is liable to be-
come a public charge.

(d) A child or children born of parents who, at any time
prior or subsequent to the birth of such child, have entered
into a civil or religious marriage ceremony, shall be deemed
the legitimate child or children of both parents, regardless
of the validity of such marriage.

(e) A child or children born of parents who held or hold
themselves out as husband and wife by virtue of a common
law marriage recognised as valid by the laws of the initiat-
ing state, and of the responding state, OR OF THE STATE
IN WHICH THEY SO REPRESENTED THEMSELVES,
shall be deemed the legitimate child or children of both
parents.

(f) A woman who was or is held out as his wife by a
man by virtue of a common law marriage recognized as valid
by the laws

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THE STATE IN WHICH THEY SO REPRESENTED