A preliminary action of the House or Senate or of a committee in considering amendments and substitutes Amendments are adopted Committee substitutes are adopted before they are voted do pass by a committee or perfected by the House or Senate House or Senate substitutes are adopted before they are perfected or third read by the House or Senate Conference committee reports are adopted before the bill or amendments they recommend are third read Ordinarily the final action on a House or Senate resolution is adoption
Adoption is where a child legally becomes the child of someone other than a birth parent (This is different to parenting orders in the Family Court) •Adoption
The legal process of adding a child into a family The child's surname is usually changed to that of the parents adopting the child and they become the legal guardians of the child Once adopted the law views the child as part of the adoptive family Many adoption records are sealed, ostensibly to protect the child but also to protect the natural parents
The process by which a person who is unrelated by blood or marriage to a child becomes the legal parent of the child Introduced in England and Wales in 1926, it is now the preferred option for the long term care of children who are unlikely ever to return to their own families
The Committee of Ministers adopts Treaties, by a decision taken by a two-thirds majority of the Representatives casting a vote and a majority of the Representatives entitled to sit on the Committee When adopted, the text of the treaty is definitive
permanent legal custody of another individual's child; adoption takes place after the parents' rights have been terminated by the court or voluntarily relinquished by the parents
Act of transferring parental rights and duties to someone other than the adopted person's biological parents. The practice is ancient and occurs in all cultures. Traditionally, its goal was to continue the male line for the purposes of inheritance and succession; most adoptees were male (and sometimes adult). Contemporary laws and practices aim to promote child welfare and the development of families. In the latter part of the 20th century, there was a relaxation of traditional restrictions on age differences between adoptive parents and children, on the parents' minimum income level, on the mother's employment outside the home, and on placements across religious and ethnic lines. Single-parent adoptions and adoptions by same-sex couples also became more acceptable. Beginning in the 1970s, a growing adoptees-rights movement in the United States called for the repeal of confidentiality laws in most states that prevented adoptees as adults from viewing their adoption records, including their original birth certificates
the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance" a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)
{i} taking of a child as one's own; act of adopting; state of being adopted; (Legal) court proceeding according to which an adult becomes the legal parent of a child who is not his/her biological child; acceptation, act of accepting with approval; positive acceptance
a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)