Question asked on May 26th, 2017
A: Short version — almost certainly not. A termination of parental rights (in Nevada, at least) is a complete dissolution of legal ties — rights and obligations — in both directions. Other states may have different laws, so the place of the order might be relevant. Of course, any person can choose to make a beneficiary designation to someone else, so if the terminated parent chose to make a bequest to the child adopted by others, he or she could do so.
Marshal S. Willick is the principal of the Willick Law Group, an A/V rated Family Law firm in Las Vegas, Nevada, and practices in trial and appellate Family Law. He is a Certified Family Law Specialist, a Fellow of both the American and International Academies of Matrimonial Lawyers, former Chair of the Nevada Bar Family Law Section and former President of the Nevada chapter of the AAML.
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