In re the Estate of Hodge

CHRISTIAN, Senior Sitting Judge

MEMORANDUM OPINION

The Court is called upon to decide whether the minor child of decedent, Bryan Preston Williamson (hereafter “Bryan”), by reason of his adoption by his stepfather, Lonnie Williamson (hereafter “the adopting parent”) and his wife, the natural mother of Bryan, Susan Stacy Williamson, in the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Dade County, Florida, Family Division, on October 29, 1979, loses his intestate inheritance from his natural parent, the decedent herein. For the reasons stated below, we answer this question in the…