Deck 13: An Introduction to the Use of Computers in a Law Office

Question 1

A black-market adoption involves a payment beyond reasonable expenses in order to facilitate the adoption.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What is an independent adoption?

Answer 2

An adoption that is arranged by the birth parents and the adoptive parents without the involvement of a public agency but often with the assistance of a facilitator or intermediary.

Question 3

What two steps comprise adoption, and when do they occur?

Answer 3

For most adoptions, the prior parent-child relationship ends by a termination of parental rights and a new parent-child relationship is created. The two steps may occur in two separate court proceedings, or both might occur in the same proceeding.

Question 4

A putative father registry:

A) terminates a father's parental rights.
B) is a way for a father to be notified of the proposed adoption of his child.
C) must be used by all fathers seeking to establish paternity.
D) allows an adoptive parent and an adoptee to reconnect.

Question 5

What consent rights do parents have when a petition has been filed to adopt their child?

Question 6

In a second-parent adoption, the biological parent must give up his or her parental rights to allow an unmarried partner or cohabitant) to adopt the child.

Question 7

A parent's parental rights can be terminated by a finding of unfitness by a preponderance of the evidence.

Question 8

An opportunity interest is the right of a father to develop a relationship with his child.

Question 9

Most states explicitly prohibit homosexuals from adopting children.

Question 10

The Adoption and Safe Families Act:

A) seeks to facilitate interstate adoptions.
B) seeks to facilitate intercountry adoptions.
C) seeks to facilitate safe adoptions.
D) seeks to facilitate the adoption of children in foster care.

Question 11

If the biological parents have already relinquished or surrendered their parental rights to an agency, the consent of the agency to the adoption will be required.

Question 12

What factors will a court consider when making the adoption decision?

Question 13

An adoption always requires the consent of the biological parents.

Question 14

A termination of parental rights TPR) is:

A) a judicial declaration that ends the legal relationship between parent and child when this is in the best interests of the child.
B) granted if TPR is in the best interests of the child.
C) granted involuntarily if the parent is unfit.
D) all of the above.

Question 15

Race can be considered in the adoption decision but it cannot be used to delay an adoption to a petitioner whose race is different from that of the child.

Question 16

A contact veto is a refusal by a biological parent to be contacted by an adopted child.

Question 17

A child can divorce a parent found to be unfit.

Question 18

What are the three main kinds of adoptions?

Question 19

What is a second-parent adoption?

Question 20

Tortious interference with parental relationships:

A) is a remedy for wrongful adoption.
B) requires in rem jurisdiction.
C) can be brought against mothers who conceal the whereabouts of an infant in order to deprive a father of his right to object to an adoption of his child.
D) must be established by clear and convincing evidence.

Question 21

The Multiethnic Placement Act MEPA) is a federal statute that forbids delay or denial of adoption on the basis of , color, or national origin.

Question 22

The right or interest of a father to develop a relationship with his child is called an
interest.

Question 23

Indicia of consists of conduct that indicates or evidences a parental relationship with a child.

Question 24

Match each numbered entry with the most relevant lettered entry below.
a. foster care
b. due diligence
c. nonage
d. open adoption
e. black-market adoption
f. indigent
g. contact veto
h. interlocutory
i. best interests of the child
j. putative father registry
29. below the required minimum age
30. payment beyond reasonable expenses
31. without means to afford something
32. denial of consent
33. substitute family care
34. standard used by court in adoption cases
35. not final
36. reasonable efforts to find or verify something
37. indication of wish to be notified of proposed adoption
38. initial and/or ongoing contact with biological parent

Question 25

A court will order a termination of parental rights that ends the legal relationship between parent and child when this is in the .

Question 26

An adoption is one that is arranged by the birth parents and the adoptive parents without the involvement of a public agency but often with the assistance of a facilitator or intermediary.

Question 27

What notice and consent rights do foster parents have in an adoption proceeding?

Question 28

is the condition of a child who has been placed in the custody of the state because the child has been abused, neglected, or abandoned.

Question 29

How does a father demonstrate his indicia of parenthood?