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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.