Commerce Bank & Trust v. Brady

OPINION

SOSA, Senior Justice.

This is an appeal from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of appellee Tammy Anne Brady establishing her as an heir to her natural grandmother’s estate. The issue is whether an adopted child can inherit from her natural grandmother when (1) the child’s natural father predeceases the grandmother and (2) the adoption occurs subsequent to the natural father’s death but prior to the grandmother’s death. We reverse the district court and hold that the child cannot inherit under these circumstances.

Ruby Holt, the deceased, had eight children, seven of…