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  2. Adoption law - Wikipedia

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    Adoption law is the generic area of legal theory, policy making, legal practice and legal studies relating to law on adoption. National adoption laws

  3. Adoption - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, embryo adoption is governed by property law rather than by the court systems, in contrast to traditional adoption. Common law adoption: this is an adoption that has not been recognized beforehand by the courts, but where a parent, without resorting to any formal legal process, leaves his or her children with a friend or ...

  4. List of areas of law - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of major areas of legal practice and important legal subject-matters. From, one of the five capital lawyers in Roman Law, Domitius Ulpianus, (170–223) – who differentiated ius publicum versus ius privatum – the European, more exactly the continental law, philosophers and thinkers want(ed) to put each branch of law into this dichotomy: Public and Private Law ...

  5. Category:Adoption law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Adoption law in the United States" ... This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9. 2008 Arkansas Act 1; A. Adoption 2002; Adoption and Safe ...

  6. Adoption in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, adoption is the process of creating a legal parent–child relationship between a child and a parent who was not automatically recognized as the child's parent at birth. Most adoptions in the US are adoptions by a step-parent. The second most common type is a foster care adoption. In those cases, the child is unable to ...

  7. Category:Adoption law - Wikipedia

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    Adoption law by country (3 C) Pages in category "Adoption law" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  8. Cultural variations in adoption - Wikipedia

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    In Arab cultures, if a child is adopted, he or she traditionally does not become a "son" or "daughter", but rather a ward of the adopting caretaker(s). The child's surname is not changed to that of the adopting parent(s), who are publicly recognised as "guardians", making it close to other nations' systems for foster care.

  9. Legal fiction - Wikipedia

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    Child adoption is a legal fiction in that the adoptive parents become the legal parents, notwithstanding the lack of a biological relationship. [5] Once an order or judgment of adoption is entered, the biological parents become legal strangers to the child, legally no longer related nor with any rights related to the child.