California Probate Code

§ 6451

PROB § 6451 Effective Jan 1, 1994Div. 6 · Part 2 · Ch. 2

Statute text

(a)An adoption severs the relationship of parent and child between an adopted person and a natural parent of the adopted person unless both of the following requirements are satisfied:

(1)The natural parent and the adopted person lived together at any time as parent and child, or the natural parent was married to or cohabiting with the other natural parent at the time the person was conceived and died before the person’s birth.

(2)The adoption was by the spouse of either of the natural parents or after the death of either of the natural parents.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 529, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 1994.