Tag: Child Adoption
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Financial Aid
Adoption Legal Definition of Financial Aid Meaning of Financial Aid See Benefit and Subsidy.Learn more with the Adoption Thesaurus Related Entries of Financial Aid in the Encyclopedia of Law Project […]
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Confidentiality
Adoption Legal Definition of Confidentiality Meaning of Confidentiality The legally required process of keeping identifying or other significant information secret; the principle of ethical practice which requires social workers and other […]
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Guardianship
The power of protective authority given by law, and imposed on an individual who is free and in the enjoyment of his rights, over one whose weakness on account of his age or infirmity renders him unable to protect himself. …
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Adoption Legal Definition of Active Registries Meaning of Active Registries Reunion registries which do not require that both parties register their consent. Once one party is registered, a designated individual (often an agency or court […]
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Adoption Legal Definition of Active Registries Meaning of Active Registries Reunion registries which do not require that both parties register their consent. Once one party is registered, a designated individual (often an agency or court […]
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Equitable Adoption
Under the law of certain jurisdictions a child had certain inheritance rights of estate of an individual who contracted to adopt him but did not do so. Such a contract may be in writing or oral. The theory rests upon the equitable principle that equity regards that as done which ought to have […]
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Guardian Ad Litem
A guardian appointed for the purposes of a suit. The appointment of such is incident to the power of every court to try a ease (2 Cow. [N. Y.] 430), and the power is then confined to the particular case at bar (Co. Litt. 89, note 16). His duty is to manage the interest of…
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Guardian Ad Litem
A guardian appointed for the purposes of a suit. The appointment of such is incident to the power of every court to try a ease (2 Cow. [N. Y.] 430), and the power is then confined to the particular case at bar (Co. Litt. 89, note 16). His duty is to manage the interest of…
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Adoption Agency
Organization placing children in homes, under the jurisdiction of state or licensing laws….
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Adoption
The act by which a person takes the child of another into his family, and treats him as his own. A juridical act creating between two persons certain relations, purely civil, or paternity and filiation. 6 Demolombe Code Nap. ÃÂÃÂÃÂç 1. As used in the law the word has a strict significance […]
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Dissolution
The act of putting an end to a legal relation . Thus the dissolution of a contract is the cancellation or abrogation of it by the parties themselves. The dissolution of a corporation means the termination of its existence as a body politic, either by an act of the legislature or by […]