agency adoption

An adoption in which parental rights are terminated and legal custody is relinquished to an agency that finds and approves the adoptive parents.

• An agency adoption can be either public or private. In all states, adoption agencies must be licensed, and in most they are nonprofit entities. Parents who voluntarily place a child for adoption most commonly use a private agency. Cf. private adoption.

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译员蓉婧，欧洲知名商学院国际金融专业，专注翻译各种与美国证券法律有关的法律文件。