New answers tagged child-abuse
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What options does an individual have if they want to pursue legal action against their biological parents for abandonment?
united-states
There is no legal right to be raised by your own biological parents. Mary's "real parents," in the eyes of the law, are her adopted parents.
Parents who surrender a child for ...
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What options does an individual have if they want to pursue legal action against their biological parents for abandonment?
australia
Adoption
Adoption severs all legal ties between the child and living biological parents - those people, therefore, have no legal relationship with the child. An adoption that occurs after ...
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What options does an individual have if they want to pursue legal action against their biological parents for abandonment?
germany Mary can't sue.
The people who happen to share Mary's genetic code are, legally speaking unrelated and strangers to Mary, as Mary was adopted, but for incest laws. That is the case because an ...
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What options does an individual have if they want to pursue legal action against their biological parents for abandonment?
canada
There is no cause of action for "abandonment" in the sense described in the question.
One would need to fit the wrong into a standard tort or extra-contractual civil liability (Quebec)...
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