2005 Vermont Code - § 553. — Illegitimate children; inheritance by and from

§ 553. Illegitimate children; inheritance by and from

(a) An illegitimate child shall inherit from or through his mother as if born in lawful wedlock. The estate of an illegitimate person dying intestate and leaving no issue nor husband nor wife shall descend to the mother, and, if the mother is dead, through the line of the mother as if the person so dying were born in lawful wedlock.

(b) An illegitimate child shall inherit from or through his father as if born in lawful wedlock, under any of the following conditions:

(1) The father has been declared the putative father of the child under 15 V.S.A. § 306.

(2) The father has openly and notoriously claimed the child to be his own. (Amended 1967, No. 350 (Adj. Sess.), eff. March 26, 1968; 1983, No. 231 (Adj. Sess.), § 1a, eff. May 14, 1984.)