Brief analysis of the inheritance relationship of stepparents and stepchildren

Abstract

The relationships between includes pure affinity, adoption and support. The nominal kinship relationship between stepparents and stepchildren does not form a relationship of dependency and cannot be inherited by each other; the adoptive step-parent and step-child relationship asserts legal inheritance in accordance with the presumption of parent-child relationship by blood relatives; and the support relationship between asserts its inheritance right on the condition of forming a "relationship of dependency". However, the law does not provide for this inheritance right in detail, resulting in different decisions in practice. This article analyses the jurisprudential debate, the legal basis and the requirements for the formation of inheritance rights between dependent step-parents and children, in the hope that the law will provide clearer guidelines for its application in this regard.