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Adopted child

Term · Law · MLC-T-LAW-000401

A child who has been legally taken into another family to be raised as their own, thereby acquiring all the legal rights and responsibilities of a biological child. This legal process severs the child's legal ties with their biological parents and establishes new ones with the adoptive parents. The adoption order is issued by a court.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-LAW-000401
FieldLaw
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-LAW-000401",
  "term": "Adopted child",
  "field": "Law",
  "definition": "A child who has been legally taken into another family to be raised as their own, thereby acquiring all the legal rights and responsibilities of a biological child. This legal process severs the child's legal ties with their biological parents and establishes new ones with the adoptive parents. The adoption order is issued by a court.",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/law/adopted-child/"
}

Record 170 of 5,441 in Law terminology (MLC-0107). Request the full dataset.