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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

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]

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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

custodian

a person: as a : the warden of a prison b : a person given custody of a child by court order c : a person named to manage a child's property under the Uniform Transfers to

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

Access

Access, approach, or the means of approaching. The presumption of a child's legitimacy is rebutted, if it be shown by strong, distinct, satisfactory, and conclusive evidence, see Atchley v. Sprigg,

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

educate

To bring up or guide the powers of as a child to develop and cultivate whether physically mentally or morally but more commonly limited to the mental activities or

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