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Abandoned Child [Spouse]

Person who has not been in contact with or received support from the parent or spouse. A court finding of child abandonment terminates parental rights and allows the child to be adopted without permission of the parents. See desertion. See Clark, The Law of Domestic Relations in the United States vol. II, 634-37 (2d ed. 1988).

 
 
 

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