§ 9:133 — Inheritance rights

§133. Inheritance rights
Inheritance rights will not flow to the in vitro fertilized human embryo as a juridical
person, unless the in vitro fertilized human embryo develops into an unborn child that is born
in a live birth, or at any other time when rights attach to an unborn child in accordance with
law. As a juridical person, the embryo or child born as a result of in vitro fertilization and
in vitro fertilized human embryo donation to another person does not retain its inheritance
rights from the in vitro fertilization patients or a donor of gametes used in the in vitro
fertilization process, unless the donor is a person from whom the child could otherwise
inherit under laws of succession notwithstanding the in vitro fertilization process.

Legislative History

Acts 1986, No. 964, §1; Acts 2016, No. 495, §2; Acts 2025, No. 116, §1.