Your estate planning attorney may ask you whether any of your children are adopted. This may seem like an odd question, among many odd questions, but the question is important. Your estate planning attorney is trying to determine whether your child has been legally adopted or is a step-child or other important child in your life. If your child has been legally adopted, he is treated the same as your biological children under the law. In other words, there is no legal difference between … [Read more...]