foster care - A form of substitute care, usually in a home licensed by a public agency, for children whose welfare requires removal from their homes.
foster care: A program that gives money to a person, family, or institution to raise someone else's child. (See also IV-E and IV-E case.)
fraud: Deceiving someone on purpose in a way that financially hurts others.
FOSTER CARE REVIEW BOARD -- Boards created in many counties throughout Michigan to review selected court cases and permanency plans of foster care placement of neglected and abuse children. These boards are composed of private citizens.
See also foster care, guardian and ward.
See M. Kornitzer, Adoption (2d ed. 1967); M. L. Leavy, Law of Adoption (3d ed. 1968); M. K. Benet, The Politics of Adoption (1976); P. Bean, ed., Adoption: Essays in Social Policy, Law, and Sociology (1984); E.
A type of adoption used by agencies to keep a child out of foster care during the adoption process. The child is placed with the adopting parents before the birthmother has legally given up her rights to raise the child.
Federally-Assisted Foster Care
a program, funded in part by the Federal government, under which a child is raised in a household by someone other than his or her own parent
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Paternity Â- Legitimacy Â- Adoption
Legal guardian Â- Foster care
Ward Â- Emancipation of minors
Grandparent visitation ...
locate parents in order to obtain child support payments; also used in cases of parental kidnapping related to custody and visitation determinations; FPLS obtains address and employer information from Federal agencies
Federally-Assisted Foster Care ...
 See also: Adopt, Child, Time, Law, Person
  
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