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Adopted Daughter Allowed to Inherit from Biological Father's Estate
Posted on Jan 28, 2009
A decedent’s biological daughter, adopted in Pennsylvania at age two by her stepfather, can inherit from decedent, who died intestate, a share of his personal property and of real property he owned in Virginia at the time of his death, a Prince William Circuit Court says.
Although the biological daughter would not have been allowed to inherit under Pennsylvania law, under Virginia's laws of intestate distribution, she did qualify as her natural father's heir, and therefore was entitled to share in his intestate estate along with her biological half-siblings.
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