KLEIN, J.
Donald Blackwell, who was eighty-eight years old and childless, adopted seventy-two year old Gordon McKesson in 1994. Blackwell was the beneficiary of a trust and, if he had died childless, the trust remainder would have gone to appellant Silvia Rickard. When Blackwell died and McKesson asserted his rights to inherit under the trust, Rickard, alleging the adoption had been concealed, brought this action in 1999 to void the adoption as a fraud on the court...
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