Adoption
An adopted child is to be regarded, for the purposes of distribution on an intestacy, as a child of the adoptive parent or parents and— (a) the child’s family relationships are to be determined accordingly, and (b) family relationships that exist as a matter of biological fact, and are not consistent with the relationship created by adoption, are to be ignored.
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