- foreign adoption
- An adoption under a decree granted by a court in state or country other than that wherein effect is sought to be given to it. 2 Am J2d Adopt §§ 12, 115.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
foreign adoption
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