Adoption Law. A Practical Guide - 2nd Edition
- Publisher:
- Wildy Simmonds & Hill
- Publication date:
- 2025-07-08
- Authors:
- Nasreen Pearce
- ISBN:
- 9780854903085
Description:
This new edition provides a comprehensive guide to the law, practice, and procedure for lawyers, adoption agencies, support services and other professional bodies who are concerned with adoption. It covers each stage of the adoption process, including the difficult issue of contact between the child and their birth parents and the alternative options available by reference to the relevant case law and regulations in relation to domestic adoptions as well as adoptions with a foreign element. The book considers registration of adoption and the sensitive issue of disclosure of information. It also outlines the rights of those parties to challenge decisions made by the professional bodies involved in the process
Index
- Preliminary sections
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- Table of Statutory Instruments
- Table of European and International Material
- Table of Statutory Guidance, etc
- Table of Judicial Practice Directions and Guidance
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Who May Adopt?
- The Child
- Placement for Adoption and Placement Orders
- Conditions for Making an Adoption Order
- Dispensing with Parental Consent
- Criteria to Be Applied - Welfare Must Be the Paramount Consideration
- Post-placement and Post-adoption Contact
- Adoption Order Application - Procedure
- Amendment, Revocation and Setting Aside of an Adoption Order
- Consequences of Adoption
- Adoptions with a Foreign Element
- Convention Adoptions
- Overseas Adoptions
- Intercountry Adoptions - Other than Convention Adoptions - 'Overseas Adoptions'
- Adoption Agencies
- Intermediary Services for Persons Adopted before 30 December 2005
- Adoption Support Services and Agencies
- The Registers
- The Disclosure of Information
- Index
