A woman who had been adopted as a child will not share in multi-million-dollar trusts intended to benefit her birth mother's "descendants," a New York court has ruled. The family fortune had come originally from the birth mother's grandfather, who became wealthy selling Jell-O in the early 1900s. Last year, a lower court ruled that the woman was entitled to a share of the trust money. The new ruling reversed that decision. The court reasoned that allowing adopted-out children to appear and claim inheritances would make it impossible for courts to issue truly final orders in inheritance cases, undermine the confidentiality of adoptions, and compromise the goal of completely assimilating adopted children into the adopting families. (In the Matter of the Accounting by Fleet Bank, 2008 N.Y. Slip Op. 02082, March 13, 2008.)