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Filiation is the legal term for the recognized legal status of the relationship between family members, or more specifically the legal relationship between parent and child. As described by the Government of Quebec:
The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption
1993 treaty
Islamic adoptional jurisprudence
Aspect of Islamic law
mukoyōshi
A is an adult man who is adopted into a Japanese family as a daughter's husband, and who takes the family's surname.
Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956
Act of the Parliament of India
Dima Yakovlev Law
Russian law forbidding the adoption of Russian children by American citizens
adult adoption
legal provision for transference of legal parentage of an adult