Texas Estates Code 201.054 – Adopted Child
(a) For purposes of inheritance under the laws of descent and distribution, an adopted child is regarded as the child of the adoptive parent or parents, and the adopted child and the adopted child’s descendants inherit from and through the adoptive parent or parents and their kindred as if the adopted child were the natural child of the adoptive parent or parents. The adoptive parent or parents and their kindred inherit from and through the adopted child as if the adopted child were the natural child of the adoptive parent or parents.
(b) The natural parent or parents of an adopted child and the kindred of the natural parent or parents may not inherit from or through the adopted child, but the adopted child inherits from and through the child’s natural parent or parents, except as provided by § 162.507(c), Family Code.
Terms Used In Texas Estates Code 201.054
- Child: includes an adopted child, regardless of whether the adoption occurred through:
(1) an existing or former statutory procedure; or
(2) an equitable adoption or acts of estoppel. See Texas Estates Code 22.004 - Court: means and includes:
(1) a county court in the exercise of its probate jurisdiction;
(2) a court created by statute and authorized to exercise original probate jurisdiction; and
(3) a district court exercising original probate jurisdiction in a contested matter. See Texas Estates Code 22.007 - Property: means real and personal property. See Texas Government Code 311.005
(c) This section does not prevent an adoptive parent from disposing of the parent’s property by will according to law.
(d) This section does not diminish the rights of an adopted child under the laws of descent and distribution or otherwise that the adopted child acquired by virtue of inclusion in the definition of “child” under § 22.004.
(e) For purposes of this section:
(1) “Adopted child” means a child:
(A) adopted through an existing or former statutory procedure; or
(B) considered by a court to be equitably adopted or adopted by acts of estoppel.
(2) “Adoptive parent” means a parent:
(A) who adopted a child through an existing or former statutory procedure; or
(B) considered by a court to have equitably adopted a child or adopted a child by acts of estoppel.