§60.03 General Concepts

• Jurisdiction: Washington

§ 60.03 GENERAL CONCEPTS

[1] What Is Adoption?

Adoption is a legal and social process to establish the legal relationship of child and parent when they were not so-related by birth. State ex rel. D.R.M., 109 Wn. App.182, 34 P.3d 887 (2001). Although the word "adoption" is not defined by statute, the outcome of the adoption process is defined and described as making the adoptee:

to all intents and purposes, and for all legal incidents, the child, legal heir, and lawful issue of the adoptive parent, entitled to all rights and privileges, including the right of inheritance and the right to take under testamentary disposition, and subject to all the obligations of a natural child of the adoptive parent.

RCW 26.33.260(1).

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