ALBANY – New York state has adopted a new statute that a Surrogate’s Court advisory group said better defines and preserves inheritance rights and financial interests of children conceived after the deaths of their biological parents.

The addition to the Estates, Powers and Trusts Law clarifies the entitlement of the “genetic child” to Social Security survivor benefits, inheritances and assets in trusts and other financial instruments of the biological parent whose sperm or ova were used to help conceive the children after the biological parents’ deaths.

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