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Thank you both for responding. During the interim, I researched it as far as possible, and determined that in my state, they are indeed legal, blood or no blood; as corresponds to lpat's reply. The last of several brothers died intestate, and the only remaining kin are all his nieces and...

just a quick question about legal heirs: if a child is not biologically related, but was placed within family by having a family member's name listed as "father" on birth certificate, is that child an equal family heir, or not? not as a child of the "father" but in the larger family sense (legal...