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full and final adoption

full and final adoption A legal adoption in which the child receives all the rights of a natural born, legitimate child. Source: Department of State. March 2007.

legitimated

legitimated Most countries have legal procedures for natural fathers of children born out of wedlock to acknowledge their children. A legitimated child from any country has two legal parents

adopt

adopt 1 : to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) as one's own child esp. in compliance with formal legal procedures see also equitable adoption

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an estate equally among the members of the group of descendants having a particular degree of kinship (as children), with the issue (that is, the offspring) of a deceased member of that group representing the deceased member,

stepchild

stepchild A spouse's child from a previous marriage or other relationship. In order for a stepchild to be able to immigrate as

surviving parent

surviving parent A child's living parent when the child's other parent is dead, and the living parent has not remarried. Source: Department

tender years exception

to the hearsay rule in some jurisdictions that allows the use of an out-of-court statement by a young child in an abuse or neglect case if the time, content, and circumstances of the statement provide sufficient indications

trust

or her estate upon death to a trust naming the surviving spouse as beneficiary usually with remainders to children or other descendants called also bypass shelter trust credit shelter trust shelter trust NOTE: The purpose of a

pendente lite

pendente lite [New Latin] : during the suit : while litigation continues [awarded joint legal custody of the child pendente lite] [pendente lite child support]

wrongful pregnancy

wrongful pregnancy : a malpractice claim brought by the parents of a healthy but unwanted child usually against a physician or health-care provider for alleged negligence in performing a sterilization or abortion procedure and

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