Maine Revised Statutes
Subpart 2: PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP
18-C §2-117. Effect of an order granting adoption on adoptee and adoptee's former parents

§2-117. Effect of an order granting adoption on adoptee and adoptee's former parents
An order granting an adoption divests the adoptee's former parents of all legal rights, powers, privileges, immunities, duties and obligations concerning the adoptee, including the right to inherit from or through the adoptee. An adoptee, however, may inherit from the adoptee's former parents if so provided in the adoption decree.   [PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW). PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. F, §1 (AFF). PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).

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Maine Revised Statutes

TITLE 18-C: PROBATE CODE

Article 2: INTESTACY, WILLS AND DONATIVE TRANSFERS

Part 1: INTESTATE SUCCESSION

Subpart 2: PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP

18-C §2-115. Determination of parentage for purposes of intestate succession

18-C §2-116. Effect of a pending petition

18-C §2-117. Effect of an order granting adoption on adoptee and adoptee's former parents

18-C §2-118. Child born after death of parent