Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person is a stepchild of a deceased person for this part if—
(a) the person is the child of a spouse of the deceased person; and
(b) a relationship of stepchild and step-parent between the person and the deceased person did not stop under subsection (2).
(2) The relationship of stepchild and step-parent stops on the divorce of the deceased person and the stepchild's parent.
(3) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the relationship of stepchild and step-parent does not stop merely because—
(a) the stepchild's parent died before the deceased person, if the deceased person's marriage to the parent subsisted when the parent died; or
(b) the deceased person remarried after the death of the stepchild's parent, if the deceased person's marriage to the parent subsisted when the parent died.