Difference between revisions of "Family Relationships"

Adoption is a Court process under the "[http://canlii.ca/t/84g5 Adoption Act]" which makes a non-biological parent of a child into his/her legal parent. That means they suddenly have all the rights and obligation of the child’s parent.  If a biological parent is not expressly kept as a parent during this process, they no longer have any parental rights or obligations after an Adoption Order is made by the Supreme Court of BC. This means they don’t pay support, and the child is no longer entitled to inherit from them. They may be able to continue to have ‘access’ to have some sort of relationship with the child if either the Adoption Order, or some other Order made later, allows this. The child can inherit from the adopting parent once the Order is made. If the new parenting relationship breaks down, the adopting parent can claim the same rights as a biological parent to have the child reside with them, participate in parenting decisions, and to receive or pay child support. If this happens, disputes are handled in the same way as for biological parents, using the Divorce Act http://canlii.ca/t/7vbw or Family Law Act http://canlii.ca/t/8q3k.