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the child of the petitioner or petitioners; unless and until
such interlocutory order of adoption is revoked the person
adopted shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges
and subject to all the obligations of a child born in lawful
wedlock to the petitioner or petitioners.

(b) The natural parents of the person adopted, if living,
shall after the interlocutory decree be relieved of all legal
duties and obligations due from them to the person adopted,
and shall be divested of all rights with respect to such per-
son; provided, that nothing in this sub-title shall be con-
strued to prevent the person adopted from inheriting from
his natural parents and relatives under the laws of this or
any other State.

(c) The term "child" or its equivalent in a deed, grant,
will of other written instrument shall be held to include any
adopted person, unless the contrary plainly appears by the
terms thereof, whether such instrument was executed before
or after the entry of the interlocutory decree of adoption, if
any, and if none, before or after the entry of the final decree of
adoption.

85L. (Final Decree.) Before the end of the trial period,
the Court may request a supplemental written report from
the agency making the original report showing the result
of such trial period and making a recommendation to the
Court in regard to the advisability of the passage of a final
decree, declaring the adoption prayed for in the petition.
If the Court be satisfied from the original report, the sup-
plemental report, or from testimony taken, or otherwise,
that the best interests and welfare of the child will be pro-
moted by the passage of a final decree declaring the adop-
tion of the person to be adopted, the Court shall, thereupon,
pass such final decree of adoption.

No attempt to invalidate a final decree of adoption by
reason of any jurisdictional or procedural defect shall be
received by the Court, or by any Court of this State, unless
regularly filed with such Court within one year following
the entry of the final decree.

85M. (Legal Effects of Final Decree.) Upon entry of a
final decree of adoption, the legal effects of an interlocutory
order shall be confirmed and continued.

The status of adoptive relationship created by a valid

final decree of adoption in another jurisdiction shall be given

full faith and credit by the courts of this State. When the

question is properly presented to a Court in this State and

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