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  • Report, Follow-Up / Post-Adoption / Progress

    A follow-up or post-adoption report details how an adopted child is doing in her new home in the period after finalization. A progress report tells how a child is adjusting in an adoptive home in the period before finalization. In international adoption, some countries require one or more […]

  • Step Adoption / Step-Parent Adoption

    Adoption of a child by the parent’s new spouse…

  • Designated/ldentified Adoptions

    Process in which birthparents choose the individual or couple who will adopt their child and designates the placement of the child while still having the benefits of an agency assisted adoption….

  • Failed Adoption / Failed Placement

    See Disruption and Dissolution…

  • Adoption Triad/triangle

    The three parties involved in an adoption: adoptee, adoptive parents and birth parents….

  • Certificate / Decree / Order (Adoption)

    At the end of the finalization process, the court issues a document stating the adoptee is the legal child of the adoptive parents….

  • Adoption ‘triangle’ (Or Adoption ‘triad’)

    An expression used to describe the three-sided inter-relationships among adopted children, their birth parents, and their adoptive parents….

  • Veto

    The right of forbidding or denying without assigning any reasons therefor.

  • Maritime Law

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Maritime Law Meaning of Maritime Law The system of law which particularly relates to commerce and navigation , to harbors, ships and seamen, to business transacted at sea or relating to navigation, to the […]

  • Contract

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Contract Meaning of Contract A deliberate engagement between competent parties upon a legal consideration to do or abstain from doing some act. It is essential to the creation of a contract that the […]

  • Vote

    An expression of the choice of an elector. Suffrage.

  • Kennedy Round

    Kennedy Round in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, a definition of this issue is as follows: the sixth round of GATT multilateral trade negotiations, held from 1963 to 1967. The entries on trade policy are here. It was named after President John F Kennedy in recognition of his support for […]

  • Approval

    Act of confirming, ratifying, sanctioning some act or thing done by another.

  • European Unión

    European Unión

    European Union in Law Enforcement Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of European Union. European Union in Maritime Law Note: There is more information on maritime/admiralty law here.The […]

  • Council of the European Unión

    Council of the European Union in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of Council of the European Union.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Policeman Law Enforcement Agency Further […]