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2016 California Code
Family Code - FAM
DIVISION 13 - ADOPTION
PART 2 - ADOPTION OF UNMARRIED MINORS
CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions
Section 8616.
CA Fam Code § 8616 (2016) What's This?
8616. After adoption, the adopted child and the adoptive parents shall sustain towards each other the legal relationship of parent and child and have all the rights and are subject to all the duties of that relationship.
(Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10. Operative January 1, 1994.)
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