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<section article="get" article_name="Estates and Trusts" number="3-301" title_number="3" title_name="Intestate Succession and Statutory Shares" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Statutory Share of Pretermitted Child and Issue">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A will may not be revoked by the subsequent birth, adoption, or legitimation of a child by the testator except under the circumstances referred to in § 4–105(3) of this article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A child described in subsection (a) of this section or issue, if any, of such child who does not survive the testator, is entitled to a share in the estate to be determined and paid in accordance with §§ 3–302 and 3–303 of this subtitle, if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The will contains a legacy for a child of the testator but makes no provision for a person who becomes a child of the testator subsequent to the execution of the will;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The child was born, adopted, or legitimated after the execution of the will;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The child, or the child’s issue, survive the testator; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The will does not expressly state that the child, or the child’s issue, should be omitted.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
