Sec. 7. (a) As used in this section, "descendant" includes the following: (1) A child adopted before the child is twenty-one (21) years of age by: (A) the settlor; or (B) the settlor's descendants. (2) A descendant of a child adopted as set forth in subdivision (1). (3) A child who is born of the mother out of wedlock in either of the following circumstances: (A) The mother is a descendant of the settlor. (B) The mother is the settlor. (4) If the right of a child born out of wedlock to inherit from the father is or has been established in the manner provided under IC 29-1-2-7 , the child, in either of the following circumstances: (A) The father is a descendant of the settlor. (B) The father is the settlor. (5) A descendant of a child born out of wedlock as set forth in subdivisions (3) and (4). (b) If: (1) an estate, real or personal, is devised to a descendant of the settlor; and (2) the beneficiary: (A) dies during the lifetime of the settlor before or after the execution of the trust; and (B) leaves a descendant who survives the settlor; the devise does not lapse, but the property devised vests in the surviving descendant of the beneficiary as if the beneficiary had survived the settlor and died intestate.
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