Section 109A — Succession Act 2006 (NSW)

(1) A child of a surrogacy arrangement in respect of whom a parentage order is made is to be regarded, for the purposes of distribution on an intestacy, as a child of the intended parent or parents named in the parentage order 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 parentage order, are to be ignored.
(2) In this section, a parentage order means a parentage order, or an Interstate parentage order, within the meaning of the Surrogacy Act 2010.

Related sections

• s 107 — Survivorship
• s 108 — General limitation of non-spousal entitlements
• s 109 — Adoption
• s 110 — Application of this Division
• s 111 — Spouse’s entitlement where no issue
• s 112 — Spouse’s entitlement where issue are also issue of the spouse

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