Whether you’re considering adopting a child or placing a child for adoption, there are some important adoption laws you’ll need to know. Adoption is a big decision, and it’s not a process that can be completed on your own. In fact, you’ll need the guidance of a professional to wa...
Not only do adoption laws vary by state, but within states, the eligibility criteria for private adoptions can vary widely from one agency to the next. The different rules and regulations can create a nightmarish and emotionally unhappy dilemma, often depending on little more than the luck of ...
Adoption is a legal process that involves the transfer of parental rights, legal counsel for the adoptive family and the birth parents based on state laws and finalization of the adoption. An attorney is required in every adoption to complete these necessary legal services....
We rely on a natural quasi-experiment using exogenous changes in state-level, same-sex adoption laws to distinguish between the competing explanations of the gender wage gap. Estimates from a differences-in-differences model show the wage gap between lesbians and heterosexual women shrank or ...
natural parenthood generally accompany adoptive parenthood (e.g., the right of custody and the obligation of support). The natural parents have no right to control an adopted child, nor have they any duties toward it, but in some states the child does not lose the right to inherit from ...
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The Nebraska high court rejected that reasoning, saying state adoption laws clearly allow a same-sex married couple to adopt, and that “any adult person or persons” can adopt a child. So set is the law that the Nebraska Attorney General declined to file a brief defending the judge's...
T. Richard Witmer, “Te Purpose of American Adoption Laws,” in Helen L. Witmer, Independent Adoptions: A Follow-up Study (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1963), p. 29. Google Scholar For a discussion that addresses the best-interests doctrine from both legal and therapeutic viewpoints,...
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View in context As Philolaus gave them laws concerning many other things, so did he upon adoption, which they call adoptive laws; and this he in particular did to preserve the number of families. View in context With the universal adoption of Colour, all distinctions would cease; Regularity ...