Legislation
SECTION 6-5.7
Posthumous children
Estates, Powers & Trusts (EPT) CHAPTER 17-B, ARTICLE 6, PART 5
§ 6-5.7 Posthumous children
(a) Where a future estate is limited to children, distributees, heirs
or issue, posthumous children are entitled to take in the same manner as
if living at the death of their ancestors.
(b) A future estate conditioned upon the death of a person without
children, distributees, heirs or issue is defeated by the birth of a
child conceived before but born alive after the death of such person.
(a) Where a future estate is limited to children, distributees, heirs
or issue, posthumous children are entitled to take in the same manner as
if living at the death of their ancestors.
(b) A future estate conditioned upon the death of a person without
children, distributees, heirs or issue is defeated by the birth of a
child conceived before but born alive after the death of such person.