law: Convert's Marriage Dissolution Act, 1866
  27. Dissolution of marriage not to affect
  
  status or right of children
  A dissolution of marriage under the provisions
  
  of this Act shall not operate to deprive the respondent’s children (if any) by
  
  the petitioner of their status as legitimate children, or of any right or
  
  interest which they would have had, according to the 5[personal law] applicable
  
  to them, by way of maintenance, inheritance, or otherwise, in case the marriage
  
  had not been so dissolved as aforesaid.