Goodstein v. Levy

WHITE, Judge.

This case involves the right of an adopted child to inherit from his collateral blood kindred.

Abe Levy died intestate in 1959. He had three blood brothers and two blood sisters. One brother, Jacob Abraham Levy, was adopted by a family named Kurtz. He predeceased Abe Levy and left five living children. A sister, Sadye Levy, was adopted by a family named Tapolsky. She is alive and married. The question is whether adoptee Sadye Levy Tapolsky Goodstein and' the five living children of adoptee Jacob Abraham Levy, deceased, are entitled to an intestate share of the estate of their…