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Adopt

Term · Law · MLC-T-LAW-000400

To legally take another person's child into one's own family and raise them as one's own, thereby assuming all parental rights and responsibilities. This process creates a permanent legal relationship between the adoptive parents and the child, severing ties with the biological parents. A court issues a final adoption order.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-LAW-000400
FieldLaw
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-LAW-000400",
  "term": "Adopt",
  "field": "Law",
  "definition": "To legally take another person's child into one's own family and raise them as one's own, thereby assuming all parental rights and responsibilities. This process creates a permanent legal relationship between the adoptive parents and the child, severing ties with the biological parents. A court issues a final adoption order.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/law/adopt/"
}

Record 169 of 5,441 in Law terminology (MLC-0107). Request the full dataset.