Posthumous children or children in the mother's womb, if born alive, are within the foregoing provisions respecting after-born children. Such children shall take any estate or property, real or personal, by descent, transmission, gift, devise, limitation or otherwise in the same manner as if absolutely born at the decease of its parent. If such child is not born alive, the effect shall be the same, to all intents and purposes, as if no such child had ever existed.
Structure Delaware Code
Title 12 - Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
Chapter 3. AFTER-BORN CHILDREN; MARRIAGE AFTER WILL
Subchapter I. After-Born Children
§ 301. Shares of after-born children.
§ 302. Raising share of after-born child.
§ 303. Appraisal and assignment of intestate real estate; appointment and duties of freeholders.
§ 304. Oath of freeholders and surveyor; action by majority.
§ 305. Vacancies among freeholders.
§ 306. Return of freeholders; conclusiveness.
§ 307. Contribution from devisees or legatees.
§ 308. Disposition of residue of intestate real or personal estate.
§ 309. Application of intestacy laws to lands allotted after-born children.