Posted on 01/22/2009 6:56:11 AM PST by Calpernia
I had never heard of an adult being adopted and started this thread to post reference information on the procedures.
Background info for current rumor.
Looks like not all states address adult adoption in their statutes:
http://www.adopting.org/adoptions/adopting-an-adult-state-laws.html
Summary: Not addressed in statute.
Does this mean an adult adoption is not recognized in all states?
Ben Hur.
Adoption wasn’t intended for identity theft. Even if an adult adoption stunt was pulled, by splicing the words of intent from the Law of Nations, it doesn’t make him a natural born citizen:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2148074/posts
Law of Nations
It’s a common estate-planning technique in my parents’ home state of Kansas. Inheritance from parent to child is not taxed as heavily (or at all, I forget), so my father’s childless aunt and uncle adopted eleven of their adult nieces and nephews so that their estate could be simply split in 11 shares and passed down to them without going through probate.
O_M_G_!
Thank you
Thanks, Calpernia. Third time this rumor has surfaced in the past few weeks.
Ping; check out #6.
There are no Federal Taxes on Inheritance up to two million dollars. It does not matter who you give it to if they are named in the Will. They do not have to be children. Also if there is a Will it does not have to go through probate.
I know this as my father recently passed away and 1/4 of his estate was willed to his care taker who was not related. Some States may require you to pay some taxes (not sure at what amount) but not all states.
It had something to do with the Kansas tax & probate system, I’m not sure exactly what.
Having a quick look through the Kansas Probate Code, the adoption of the eleven cousins might be related to the Kansas Simplified Estates Act, which is Article 32.
holy Toledo!! I hadn’t heard anything about him like this! Who is the mom and pop? Ayers?
Well we have:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/obamas-new-name.html
Sunny and Mary Black Eagle
We have a new alias.
Barack Black Eagle
From your link:
“Obama promised the crowd that as president he would have regular meetings at the White House with tribal leaders and appoint an American Indian policy advisor.”
Oh, PLEASE,let me have that job.
Last year some little tribe was selling Mexican aliens ‘tribal membership’ telling them that got them citizenship. It did not.
Those nieces/nephews would have to be parentless- all parent’s deceased.
How craven anyways- what the world has forced!
No actually. The link I provided to the states laws map says as long as the person is over 18, the consent comes from the person. The parents don’t have to be dead.
Yes ok- just didn’t look. Sorry.
mvpel’s post on “common technique” in Kansas just really threw me.
Excuse me for being rational! This is so very strange.
I’d call it “craven” to sever relations w/ biological parents for tax purposes! Is all Kansas suggesting its not such a bad thing? Strikes me as a very murky thing, a violation of natural law.
Well so aren’t pre-nups, surrogate moms and embryonic stem cells.
Not suggesting this device is anywhere near so serious, but I wouldn’t do it. I don’t want to debate it so I’m not including Mr P. This is very new to me, obviously.
I agree, this [adopting adults] is totally irrational. But it does look like a serious illegal alien loophole.
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