Understanding the language of a will!

Mojisola

getmore4less wrote: »

There were some changes fairly recently to the way adoption and inheritance is handled as there were some anomalies that were not obvious.

Do you mean the 2014 changes?

If a child is now adopted after a birth parent dies, the child can still inherit from the deceased parent's estate which is only fair.

After adoption, the child has the same legal rights as a natural child of his/her parents.

Touchstone_2

What an interesting discussion this turned out to be.
I found this comment, see below, dealt with the point that is most like the situation that could happen to us.
"If your daughter were to re-marry............ , but if she were to marry someone who had children of their own, those step children would not, because they are not related to you".

Thanks to all who have contributed.