<div dir="ltr">Thank you, Dalynne!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 3, 2025 at 10:19 AM Dalynne Singleton <<a href="mailto:dalynne@glgmail.com">dalynne@glgmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-4108476266234720812">
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Laura Latta<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 2, 2025 5:06 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> WSBA Probate & Trust Listserv <<a href="mailto:wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com" target="_blank">wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [WSBAPT] Adoptee is not the "child" or "descendent" of biological/non-adoptive parent<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have a citation handy for the proposition that when a biological parent places a child for adoption and the adoption is finalized, the adoptee will no longer fall within the definition of child or descendant of the biological parent
as that term is used in statutes, contracts, wills etc.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The statutes I have reviewed state that adoptees are the issue of the adoptive parent (e.g RCW11.02.005(11) and RCW 22.33.260), but I have not come across anything that
<i>explicitly</i> states the inverse - that adoptee is no longer the issue of the biological parent. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm sure I could dig up a case, but I thought I'd check here first and see if anyone has chased this down before.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Warmly,<u></u><u></u></p>
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