Foster v. Foster

OPINION

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

Quare: Does an adopted person— who was adult when adopted in 1976 — succeed to the same rights of inheritance exis-tant by Texas law applicable to a natural born child or applicable to an adopted person who was actually a child — a minor — on the date of adoption?

Answer: No.

Dispute between the parties in the trial court, and on appeal here, involved the question of whether purportedly valid decrees of adoption of those who were adults at the time made their status that of children of the adoptive parents with the same rights as applied to inheritance from the…