Email WV Code

Email: Chapter 42, Article 1, Section 12

§42-1-12. When a child may inherit from a parent who has been barred from inheritance.

If a parent is barred from inheriting under the provisions of W.Va. Code §42-1-11, the child may still inherit from or through the barred parent as long as a parent-child relationship does not exist between the child as an adoptee with another person as the adoptee’s adoptive parent.