Omitted/pretermitted child statute
Definition
Depending on the state, a statute under which a child of the decedent who was intentionally disinherited or inadvertently omitted from the will may be entitled to receive a share of the estate. Pretermitted child is a term often used to refer to a child inadvertently omitted from the will because the child was born after the will was executed and the will was not changed to incorporate the later born child.