Index

• Pages: 261-266
• Author: Walter Wadlington,Raymond C. O'Brien,Robin Fretwell Wilson

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INDEX

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References are to Pages

ABANDONMENT OF CHILDREN

See also Abduction, Abuse,

Dependency and Neglect

of Children; Termination

of Parental Rights

Safe Haven Laws, 227, 229

Termination of parental rights, 1, 88

ABDUCTION, ABUSE AND

NEGLECT OF CHILDREN

See also Parent-Child

Relationship;

Termination of Parental

Rights; Safe Haven Laws

Child Abuse Prevention and

Treatment Act, 224

Child’s Testimony, 227

Incarceration, 229

Juvenile Court Jurisdiction, 169

Poverty, 225

Sexual abuse, 201, 228

Special Needs, 182

ABORTION

Partial birth, 147

Women’s rights, 146

ABUSE

Discipline of parent, 175, 206, 216,

225

Physical abuse, 99, 224

Proving abusive conduct, 227

Sexual abuse, 224, 227

ADOPTION OF ADULTS

Civil effects, 248, 249

Consent by adoptee, 248

Full Faith and Credit, 248

Inheritance context, 248

Who can adopt, 242

Who can be adopted, 247, 248

ADOPTION OF MINORS

Abrogation, 239

Adoption Assistance and Child

Welfare Act of 1980, 245

Agency adoptions, 234, 237

Independent, 234, 235

Potential agency liability, 237

Requirements of providing

medical histories, 237

Role of facilitators, 225

Classifications, 234

Confidentiality requirements, 235

Equitable adoption (adoption by

estoppel), 249

Federal tax credit for adoption

assistance, 245

Genetic parents, notice and consent,

240

Homosexuals as adopters, 243

Indian Child Welfare Act, 198, 242

Intercountry adoption, 251

Hague Convention on the

Protection of Children

and Cooperation in

Respect of Intercountry

Adoption, 249

Legal effects, 233

Multiethnic Placement Act, 242

Negligence of agencies, 237, 238

Open adoption, 8, 249, 250

Private placements, 235

Facilitators, 225

Putative fathers, 240

Putative father registry, 240

Requirement of consent, 240

Racial and religious considerations,

242

Same-sex couples as adopters, 247

Stepparent adoptions, 246

Subsidized adoption, 245, 246

Uniform Adoption Act, 234

Unmarried father’s rights, 240

ALIENATION OF AFFECTIONS

See Heart Balm Actions

ALTERNATIVES TO MARRIAGE

Civil unions, 8

Contractual agreements,

Marvin v. Marvin, 5, 11

Domestic partnerships, 8

Reciprocal beneficiaries, 8

AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE,

PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW

OF FAMILY DISSOLUTION:

ANALYSIS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS

(2000), 29, 89, 201

ASSISTED REPRODUCTION

AND GESTATIONAL

SURROGACY

See also Paternity and

Maternity

Artificial insemination, 17, 157