Sec. 22.026.  NEXT OF KIN.  "Next of kin" includes:
(1)  an adopted child or the adopted child's descendants; and
(2)  the adoptive parent of the adopted child.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680 (H.B. 2502), Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.