In computing the tax on the net estate, the entire amount of property, interest in property, and income passing to the surviving spouse, lineal ascendants, lineal descendants, and stepchildren and their lineal descendants are exempt from tax. “Lineal descendants” includes descendants by adoption.
91 Acts, ch 159, §23, 24; 94 Acts, ch 1046, §10; 97 Acts, ch 1, §2, 8; 2015 Acts, ch 125, §2, 5, 6
2015 amendment by
, takes effect July 1, 2016, and applies to estates of decedents dying on or after that date;