Under Section 26(3) of the Special Marriage Act, 1954, no rights are conferred in property of:

Section 26(3) says nothing in section 26(1) or (2) confers on the child "any rights in or to the property of any person, other than the parents", where but for the Act the child could not have acquired them for want of legitimacy. The child's rights in the property of the father and the mother are preserved.