Once the adoption has been decreed, the adoptee shall be deemed for all legal purposes as the child of the adopter, with all the rights, duties and obligations corresponding to it, by law. Adoption by final and binding decree shall extinguish any legal nexus between the adoptee and his/her former biological or adoptive family.The adoptee shall retain all rights acquired prior to the date of issue of the adoption decree under his/her former ties as member of his/her former family. The determination of filiation of the adoptee which occurs subsequent to the adoption decree shall not affect the adoption already in effect, nor the adoptee and his/her adopting family. History —Civil Code, 1930, added as § 137 on Jan. 19, 1995, No. 8, § 1.
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