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Department
of Human Services Families
First Online Policy Manual Relationship |
Revised: |
13.2 |
RELATIONSHIP TERMS |
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Legal
adoption of a child or a child’s parent establishes a legal relationship to a new set of
relatives, both immediate and extended.
The adoptive relatives within the specified degree of relationship
qualify to receive Families First for an adopted child as do the blood relatives
of the adopted child. ·
Child Born of Annulled/Bigamous Marriage Children born of an annulled or bigamous
marriage are considered the legal children of that marriage. ·
Child Born During Marriage By law in Tennessee, any child born during
a marriage or within ten months of the termination of that marriage by death
or divorce is presumed to be the child of the mother’s husband. This presumption can be overcome only by
strong and convincing evidence that it would have been impossible for
cohabitation between the mother and her husband to have occurred at the time
of the child’s conception. Therefore, when a child is born in these
circumstances, the mother’s husband will be considered to be the child’s
father. This is true, even if it is
alleged that someone other than the husband is the child’s father, until
paternity is established in a court of competent jurisdiction. ·
Legitimated Children Children who have been legitimated are
entitled to all rights and privileges of a child born in wedlock. Therefore, relatives of the legitimating
parent are considered as relatives eligible to receive Families First for the
child. ·
Termination of Parental Rights Termination of parental rights by a court
of competent jurisdiction terminates all of the rights and responsibilities
of a child’s parents. However, such
termination does not affect a child’s relationship to his/her natural
extended family. When blood
relationship to these relatives can be factually established, they may
receive Families First for the child. |
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