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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="1-209" title_number="1" title_name="Estates of Decedents -- General Provisions" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Determining Relationship">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In construing all provisions of the estates of decedents law and, unless a contrary intention is indicated, in construing the terms of a will, issue means every living lineal descendant except a lineal descendant of a living lineal descendant.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person who is treated as a child of a person pursuant to §§ 1–205 through 1–208 of this subtitle shall be considered for all purposes as:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A lineal descendant of the person; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Except as provided in subsection (a) of this section, a lineal descendant of all persons of whom the person is a lineal descendant.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
