Newman v. Wells Fargo Bank

*129Opinion

BAXTER, J.

We are asked to decide whether, in looking to the law of intestacy as a guide to a testator’s presumed intent when a will provision is ambiguous, a court should consider the law in effect at the time the will or testamentary trust was executed to determine if a child adopted out of a designated ancestor’s family is among the “issue” and “children” the testator intended to benefit, or should apply the law in effect at the death of the ancestor through whom the child may take. Appellant, minor A., a creditor of Jon E. Newman, claims that even though Newman was adopted by…