Court of Appeals of New York
In the Matter of the Estate of Murphy, 137
Under DRL section 117(2)(a), adopted children and their issue are ordinarily "strangers" to their birth relatives, and thus are excluded from class gifts; however, they are not "strangers" when the bequest is to a named adopted-out child.
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- Decided 10/27/2005
- Published 10/27/2005
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