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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are the options? From whose perspective? The perspective of the grandparent or of the adopted grandchild?

The grandparent can include language in their will or trust excluding adopted grandchildren from inheriting (assuming any grandchildren inherit per the terms at all -- if everything is left to PETA, or the NRA, or whatever, this doesn't need to be addressed).

As far as the adopted grandchild (or anyone acting on their behalf) goes -- they don't really have options. Not legal ones anyway. Adopted grandchildren don't have any right to inherit because grandchildren in general don't have any right to inherit. As far as I know the only right to inherit statutes out there that apply to the estates of persons who do not pass intestate address the rights of a spouse, or the rights of minor children.  And those rights are going to vary a great deal, if they exist at all, from state to state.

There isn't something derivative of primoginture or something that applies to adopted grandkids. [/quote]

Nobody has the right to inherent!!     Grandchildren are grandchildren.  We are talking about wills.   If someone dies intestate and their only living family member is a grandchild then the grandchild is the heir, adopted or not.   [/quote]

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