Kroff v. Amrhein

Citations

• 94 Ohio St. 282
• 114 N.E. 267
• 1916 Ohio LEXIS 139

Syllabus

<p>Adopted children — Descent of property of foster parents — Parents survive adopted child — Who dies intestate, leaving married daughter — Latter devises property to husband — Poster parents having died intestate — Sections 8029 and 8030, General Code.</p> <p>1. The primary and paramount purpose of Section 8029, General Code, is to make an adopted child the equal of a natural child “to all legal intents and purposes.”</p> <p>2. This same purpose is further evidenced and emphasized in Section 8030, General Code, which invests such adopted child with “all the rights and privileges” of a child of the blood or a child begotten in lawful wedlock.</p> <p>3. The only limitation put upon an adopted child is in the last sentence of Section 8030, General Code, which provides in substance that if the death of the adopted child occur subsequently to the death of the adopting parents, and such adopted child be “without issue,” then, and in that event, the line of heirship reverts back to the adopting parents.</p>