Legal Dictionary

Tag: Adoptions

  • Risk Assessment

    To assess and measure the likelihood that a child will be maltreated in the future, frequently through the use of checklists, matrices, scales and other methods of measurement….

  • Stepparent Adoption

    The adoption of a child by the new spouse of the birthparent….

  • Risk

    Hazard , danger , peril , exposure to loss, injury , disadvantage or destruction, and comprises all elements of danger. Knox Jewelry Co. Inc. v Cincinnati Ins. Co., 203 S.E.2d 739, 130 Ga.App. 519. In insurance law, it denotes that specified contingency or peril contemplated in the […]

  • Orphanage

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Orphanage Meaning of Orphanage A home or asylum for orphans. Orphanage Alternative Definition In English law. The share reserved to an orphan by the […]

  • Surrender

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Surrender Meaning of Surrender The yielding or restoring of an estate to the person entitled to the immediate reversion or remainder . The term is applied to the Relinquishment of life estates or a lease […]

  • Sexual Abuse

    Sexual Abuse

    Adoption Legal Definition of Sexual Abuse Meaning of Sexual Abuse The employment, use, persuasion, inducement, enticement or coercion of any child to engage in, or assist any other person to engage in, any sexually explicit conduct or any […]

  • Sexual Abuse

    Sexual Abuse

    Adoption Legal Definition of Sexual Abuse Meaning of Sexual Abuse The employment, use, persuasion, inducement, enticement or coercion of any child to engage in, or assist any other person to engage in, any sexually explicit conduct or any […]

  • Occupational Therapy

    Adoption Legal Definition of Occupational Therapy Meaning of Occupational Therapy The science of using everyday activities with specific goals, to help people of all ages prevent, lessen or overcome physical disabilities.Learn more with the […]

  • Ins

    INS has changed its name to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, now a bureau under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security….

  • Ins

    INS has changed its name to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, now a bureau under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security….

  • Search

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Search Meaning of Search In criminal law, means an examination of a person ‘s house or other buildings or premises or of his person with a view to the discovery of contraband or illicit or stolen […]

  • Institutionalization

    The gradual domination of financial markets by institutional investors, as opposed to individual investors. This process has occurred throughout the industrialized world….

  • Revoke

    Revoke

    To annul, or make void by calling or taking back; to cancel or set aside; to abolish, withdraw. See Revocation.

  • Loss

    Loss

    The term derives its meaning from the context in which it is used. Generally, denotes any deprivation , decrease in value , depreciation , liability actually incurred, the act of losing, or the thing lost, ruin, a bad or uncollectable debt, First Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass’n of Billings v […]

  • Special Needs Child

    A child with medical, mental, emotional, behavioral, or educational needs that could require extra on-going attention….