North Dakota Century Code Title 30.1. Uniform Probate Code § 30.1-04-17. (2-118) Parent-child relationship--Adoptee and adoptee's adoptive parent or parents

1. A parent-child relationship exists between an adoptee and the adoptee's adoptive parent or parents.

2. For purposes of subsection 1:

3. If, after a parent-child relationship is established between a child of assisted reproduction and a parent under section 30.1-04-19 or between a gestational child and a parent under section 30.1-04-20, the child is in the process of being adopted by the parent's spouse when that spouse dies, the child is treated as adopted by the deceased spouse for purposes of subdivision b of subsection 2.