Estate of David v. Snelson

We granted certiorari to resolve a conflict between two decisions of the court of appeals. In In re Estate of David, 762 P.2d 745 (Colo.App.1988), a divided panel of the court of appeals held that children adopted in 1961 were not entitled to inherit from their natural father who died intestate in 1986. In a case decided the same day, In re Estate of Bomareto, 757 P.2d 1135 (Colo.App.1988), the court of appeals held that a child adopted in 1960 was entitled to inherit from her natural father who died intestate in 1982. We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals in David. We disapprove of…