Adoption

Adoption

Adoption is the process of assuming parenting for another, and in turn all rights and responsibilities attached to this, from the biological parents of the child being adopted.

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Adoption

When used in the context of adoption, this term refers to a set of appropriately authenticated and translated legal documents which are used in international adoption cases to process the adoption of ...

finalization

Parenting; Adoption

The point in time when the court grants the Petition to Adopt of the adoptive parents and takes the necessary action to formally make the child a legal member of their family.

domestic adoption

Parenting; Adoption

An adoption that involves adoptive parents and a child that are citizens and residents of the United States.

disruption

Parenting; Adoption

This term generally refers to an adoption that for some reason has not become final, even though the adoptive parents were identified as the parents to adopt the child and the child may have even ...

disclosure

Parenting; Adoption

The release or transmittal of previously hidden, confidential or unknown information.

decree of adoption

Parenting; Adoption

The document that a judge signs to finalize an adoption. It formally creates the parent-child relationship between the adoptive parents and the adopted child, as though the child were born as the ...