Legitimacy & Paternity
This action establishes the biological fatherhood of a child.
What is a paternity action?
This type of adoption involves placement through an adoption agency.
What is an agency adoption?
This can occur automatically when a child reaches the age of majority.
What is emancipation?
A tort committed between family members is called this.
What is an intrafamily tort?
The largest category of assisted reproductive technology.
What is IVF (In Vitro Fertilization)?
A child born to married parents at the time of birth is generally considered this.
What is a legitimate child?
For an adoption to proceed, parental rights generally must be surrendered unless they have already been this.
What is terminated?
Despite being under 18, a minor may legally own this type of property.
What is real property or personal property?
Damages for the loss of companionship, affection, and marital relations are known as this.
What is loss of consortium?
If a surrogate changes her mind, custody is determined according to this.
If a surrogate changes her mind, custody is determined according to this.
A child born to a married woman is presumed to be this, although the presumption may be challenged.
What is the legitimate child of the woman's husband?
An adopted child has these rights with respect to adoptive parents.
What are the rights to support, inheritance, and workers' compensation benefits?
This is the failure of a parent to provide for a child's basic needs.
What is child neglect?
Parents may be liable for a child's tort because of this type of negligence.
What is negligent supervision?
A child may be adopted when biological parents consent, are deceased, or when this has occurred.
What is termination of parental rights?
This registry protects the rights of unmarried fathers during adoption proceedings.
What is the Putative Father Registry?
This is NOT required to complete an adoption.
What is paying the birth mother a $10,000 fee?
Parents may be liable for a child's tort under this doctrine involving automobile accidents.
What is the Family Purpose Doctrine?
This type of liability is created by state parental liability laws.
What is vicarious liability?
A contract entered into by a minor is generally this.
What is binding on the other party but may be avoided by the minor?
This legal process creates the legal relationship between a father and child.
What is legitimation?
The court considers these factors when deciding whether an adoption is in a child's best interest.
What are the petitioner's age, health, and economic status?
Parental rights may be terminated when this occurs.
What is abandonment, chronic neglect, or abuse?
An intrafamily tort may occur between these family relationships.
What are spouse-to-spouse, parent-to-child, or child-to-parent?
Child neglect may result from these factors.
What are poverty, lack of parenting skills, or unorthodox religious practices?