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Legal relationship of a parent
- : a legal relationship of a parent and especially a father and child that creates rights and obligations
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Filiation is the relationship which exists between a child and the child’s parents, whether the parents are of the same or the opposite sex. The relationship can be established by blood, by law in certain cases, or by a judgment of adoption.
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An officially recognized bond, often between a parent and a child, that establishes certain rights and responsibilities. The legal process of affirming or determining somebody's status as a parent or child.
Filiation is one of the foundational institutions of the civil law of the family. Traditionally, civilian scholars regarded marriage as the act that founds a new family and filiation as the institution by which that family extends forwards in time. Filiation makes up part of a person’s civil status.
The state or condition of a father; the relationship of a father. English and U.S. Common Law have recognized the importance of establishing the paternity of children. In the United States, a child born outside a legal marriage relationship will lose Child Support and inheritance rights if the fatherhood of the child is not legally established.
1. a. : filial relationship especially of a son to his father. b. : the adjudication of paternity. 2. a. : descent or derivation especially from a culture or language. b. : the act or process of determining such relationship. Examples of filiation in a Sentence.
Filiation. [Late Latin filiatio relationship of a son and father, from Latin filius son] 1: a legal relationship of a parent and esp. a father and child that creates rights and obligations [used to help prove in a paternity suit " LeBlanc v.
Legal definition for FILIATION: The relation of a child to its parent; correlative to "paternity." o The judicial assignment of an illegitimate child to a designated man as its father. In the civil law.
