In a message dated 4/16/01 8:56:08 AM, DW9JOHNSON@aol.com writes: << "Natural" at that time meant: "Biological" >> Don, thanks for having a definite answer on that time period. So what about inheritance laws for children born in that time period (1802)? Even if her mother had no separate property, shouldn't she have been entitled to a share of her father's community property when he died in 1838? In other family records, that has happened, with or without a will, with or without a subsequent marriage.