Adoption Dissolution Law and Legal Definition
Adoption Dissolution is the interruption or "failure" of an adoption after finalization. It is usually initiated by the parents via a court petition, much like a divorce, to which it is analogous.
Despite the intense and careful screening that most who wish to adopt children must go through, sometimes the adoption does not succeed. The child may have developmental or psychological issues that the parents cannot handle, had not been informed of prior to the adoption, or both or the parents may have had unrealistic expectations of the child, and they just may not get along.
Legal Definition list
- Adoption Disruption
- Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980
- Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA)
- Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS)
- Adoption
- Adoption Dissolution
- Adoption Facilitator
- Adoption Loss
- Adoption of [Other Party’s] Motions
- Adoption of Convenience
- Adoption Promotion Act of 2003
Related Legal Terms
- Abandonment [Intercountry Adoption]
- Accredited Agency [Adoption]
- Accredited Body [Adoption]
- Accrediting Entity [Adoption]
- Administrative Dissolution
- Adoption
- Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS)
- Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA)
- Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980
- Adoption Disruption
