California: Interstate Inheritance Rights

California

Birth Parents in Relation to Adopted Person Statute: Prob. Code App. § 6408.5; Prob. Code § 6451

  • A natural parent may not inherit from or through a child on the basis of the parent-child relationship if someone, other than the spouse or surviving spouse of the natural parent, has adopted the child.

Adoptive Parents in Relation to Adopted Person Statute: Prob. Code § 6450; Fam. Code § 8616

  •  A relationship of parent and child exists between an adopted person and the person's adopting parent or parents for the purpose of determining intestate succession.

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