Cap. 16 · Civil Code (Cap. 16)
Cap. 16 Art. 123Property rights.
Title III
(1) Where, at any time after the making of an adoption decree, the adopter or the adopted person or any other person dies intestate in respect of any property, that property shall devolve in all respects as if the adopted person were the child of the adopter born in lawful wedlock and were not the child of any other person.
(2) In any disposition of property made, whether by instrument or by will, after the date of an adoption inter vivos decree -
(a) any reference (whether express or implied) to the child or children of the adopter shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as, or as including, a reference to the adopted person;
(b) any reference (whether express or implied) to the child or children of the adopted person’s natural parents or either of them shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as not being, or as not including, a reference to the adopted person; and
(c) any reference (whether express or implied) to a person or persons related to the adopted person in any line or degree shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as a reference to the person or persons who would be related to him in that line or degree if he were the child of the adopter born in lawful wedlock and were not the child of any other person.
(3) For the purposes of the devolution of any property in accordance with this article and for the purposes of the construction of any disposition to which sub-article (2) applies, an adopted person shall be deemed to be related to any other person being the adopted child of the adopter as brother or sister.
(4) Where an adoption decree is made in respect of a person who has been previously adopted, the previous adoption shall be disregarded for the purposes of this article in relation to the devolution of any property on the death of a person dying intestate after the date of the subsequent adoption decree, and in relation to any disposition of property made, or taking effect on the date of a person dying, after that date.