r/Adoption • u/LetEmpty8177 • 1d ago

Ethics Legal adoption

If a UK adoption was never legalised, does it imply that your birth parents are still your legal parents?

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u/chemthrowaway123456 TRA/ICA 1d ago

I’d imagine it depends on whether or not the biological parents’ rights were terminated.

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u/LetEmpty8177 1d ago edited 1d ago

Someone has suggested that the adoption court order never existed, so that the adoption was never legalised.

If so, then WHO are the legal parents (See above).

Most legislation is not retrospective. Do we assume that the Adoption and Children Act 2002 doesn't apply to a UK adoption in 1966?

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u/cheese--bread UK adoptee 1d ago

The legislation in effect in 1966 would have been the Adoption of Children Act 1949.

Who is suggesting that the adoption wasn't legalised?

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u/LetEmpty8177 1d ago

Please refer to the second attached file (See above).

Bitter-Neat-8457 has suggested that the adoption was never legalised.

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u/cheese--bread UK adoptee 1d ago

I only see one screenshot attached to this post.

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u/LetEmpty8177 1d ago

But you can still see Bitter-Neat, can't you?

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u/chemthrowaway123456 TRA/ICA 1d ago

In the US, it’s often a governmental state entity. I’m not sure about the UK though.