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Definition of Adoptive parent
1. Noun. A person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adoptive Parent
Literary usage of Adoptive parent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1914)
"The authorities unite in affirming that the status of an adoptive child for all
legal purposes, and as to the property inherited from an adoptive parent, ..."
2. The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided by Isaac Grant Thompson, Irving Browne (1885)
"... the decision from which we have quoted can not be authority to prove that the
natural heirs shall take, to the exclusion of a surviving adoptive parent, ..."
3. Annotated Cases, American and English by H Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney, David Shephard Garland (1918)
"The court, after holding that an adoptive parent has no right in inheritance in
the property of an adopted child by virtue of the Kentucky adoption statutes ..."
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