Translation Services Relating To Legal Child Adoption Process

By: Shazia Butt Posted on Thu, 04-02-2016

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During an adoption process, a person that is well off and can afford to properly take care of a child, according to the law he can take on all responsibilities of being a parent of usually a child that is not born to him. There are specific laws that have been approved relating to adoption. There are a lot of children who are temporarily put in foster homes just because their birth parents are poor and cannot take good care of them.

It is very difficult to adopt a child in Portugal if not impossible because very few healthy children are up for adoption in the countries where people are willing to adopt children. Foreigners may be able to adopt children from the foster care within Portugal. The reason being, that those foreign countries are relatively prosperous, because they can afford to properly feed and take good care of the child. Make use of the Portuguese Adoption Papers Translation Services if you want to know more about the adoption process in Portugal.

What Is Adoption Law?

Adoption law is a process where parents voluntarily assume the legal right and responsibilities of a child that is not born to them. After the adoption, all the legal ties between the child and the birth parent are cut off. The new adoptive parents and the child need to behave just like a normal family, according to the law. The adoptive parents then, have to decide on important matters such as medical treatment, education as well as the regular day-to-day issues of the child. Some jurisdictions even ask for the need for the insurance of the modified birth certificate showing the new parents’ names.

All this information is usually in the documentary form. Since, Portuguese is not an easy language, and is not known by a lot of people, you can hire the Adoption Documents Translation services making it easier for everyone to read and understand.

Termination of Parental Rights

Before any adoption that has been filed, the parental right of both the birth mother and father need to be cancelled. The main reason behind this, is that it prevents the birth parents from trying to take control over the child at a later time. This process is done by collecting both the birth parents’ signatures on a legal document and filing it with the court. When both the birth parents’ rights have been terminated, the argument must be heard before the family law court. The hearing itself must be conducted just like a trial where both the adoptive parents’ need to provide clear and convincing evidence that the birth parents are unfit to take good care of the child. The main goal here is to prove in front of the judge that approving the adoption process is in the best interest of the child.

In different adoptions, several people are not aware of the Portuguese language, what they can do is hire the Quality Translation Services, not just because they are cost effective but also because they can provides good quality service. Moreover, those who want to know more about the adoption processes in Portugal can take help from the Arabic Adoption Documentation Translation Services.

Open Vs Closed Adoption

One common question always occurs in your mind while going through a process of adoption is that once the adoption is complete who will stay in contact with the child? The answer to this is that, just like being natural parents, the adoptive parents have complete right to decide on this issue. In an open adoption, the child is allowed to some extent to stay in contact with the birth parents. But when dealing with a closed adoption, this issue has to be decided by the adoptive parents.

As adoption laws differ from state to state, the federal laws can affect many procedures during the adoption process. If you have any questions about the legal laws pertaining to the adoption process in Portugal, take advantage of the Portuguese Adoption Documentation Translation Services.