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You worked as an accountant for Sharon, a wealthy woman who was an only child and inherited significant assets from her parents. Sharon has been married and divorced three times. Prior to her first marriage, she had a son with a high school sweetheart whom she never married. She raised that child to adulthood. She had two children with her first husband and formally adopted the child he had with his first wife before she died. She had two children with her second husband, who also had two children with a prior spouse. She did not formally adopt those children, but considered them her own. All of the children are still alive except her first son who died with a wife and three small children. Sharon recently died without debts and without a will. A senior partner for your firm has been named the administrator and has asked you to help sort out who might inherit her fortune under the state’s intestacy laws. Sharon lived in your state which sets per stirpes as the default distribution method. Assume the general rules and articulate who should and should not inherit.