"Next of kin" includes:
(1) an adopted child or the adopted child's descendants; and
(2) the adoptive parent of the adopted child.
Tex. Est. Code § 22.026
NEXT OF KIN
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff
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