A lawfully adopted child shall not be considered an "heir" of his or her natural parents for purposes of this title.
RCW 11.04.085
Inheritance by adopted child.
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case 80 Wash. 2d 111 - Belancsik v. Overlake Memorial Hospital (1971)
Most recently applied in 143 Wash. 2d 412 - Marzan v. Kovacs (April 2001)
2010 c 8 s 2004; 1965 c 145 s 11.04.085.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.