An order granting an adoption divests the adoptee's former parents of all legal rights, powers, privileges, immunities, duties and obligations concerning the adoptee, including the right to inherit from or through the adoptee. An adoptee, however, may inherit from the adoptee's former parents if so provided in the adoption decree.
Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 18-C, § 2-117
Effect of an order granting adoption on adoptee and adoptee's former parents
PL 2017, c. 402, Pt
Official source: Maine Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Maine statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.