{"id":1931,"date":"2014-07-01T16:03:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T20:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2014-08-05T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T20:09:21","slug":"adoption-inheritance-rights-wills-act-1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=1931","title":{"rendered":"Adoption and Inheritance Rights under the Wills Act of 1947"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the language of the Wills Act of 1947, which was in effect at the time of the testator&#8217;s death, if there is no contrary intent expressed in the will, &#8220;issue&#8221;, &#8220;child&#8221;, or &#8220;children&#8221; presumptively includes children that were adopted regardless of the date of adoption and includes those adoptees who were adopted as adults as long as a parent-child relationship existed between the adoptee and the adopter during the adoptee&#8217;s minority.\u00a0 \u00a0 <em>Armistead Trust<\/em>, 4 Fid. Rep. 3d 233 (O.C. Delaware 2014) (Opinion by Kenney, J.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the language of the Wills Act of 1947, which was in effect at the time of the testator&#8217;s death, if there is no contrary intent expressed in the will, &#8220;issue&#8221;, &#8220;child&#8221;, or &#8220;children&#8221; presumptively includes children that were adopted &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=1931\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[211,215,217,216],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-adoption","tag-issue","tag-tafel-decision","tag-wills-act-of-1947","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}