O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 53-1-8 (2019)

Adopted individuals

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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A decree of adoption, whether issued by a court of this state or by a court of any other jurisdiction, shall have the effect described in Code Section 19-8-19, and the adoptive parents and relatives of the adoptive parents shall likewise be entitled to inherit from and through the adopted individual under the laws of intestacy in the absence of a will and to take as parents or relatives of the parents of the adopted individual under the provisions of any instrument of testamentary gift, unless expressly excluded therefrom.

History

Code 1981, § 53-1-8, enacted by Ga. L. 1997, p. 1352, § 2.

Annotations

Law reviews. - For article commenting on the enactment of this Code section, see 14 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 313 (1997).

For note, ‘‘Status or Contract? A Comparative Analysis of Inheritance Rights under Equitable Adoption and Domestic Partnership Doctrines,’’ see 39 Ga. L. Rev. 675 (2005).