adoption certificate
New family documentation
An adoption certificate is an official document issued when an adoption is legally finalized, establishing the adoptive parents as the child's legal parents.
It typically replaces or supplements the original birth certificate and serves as legal proof of the parent-child relationship: We framed the adoption certificate next to her baby photos.
- home studyLearning outside the classroom
- background checkInvestigation of someone's history
- paper trailDocumentary evidence chain
- birth parentOne who conceived offspring
- parental rightsLegal power over children
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