§ 8500 Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions …
§ 8502 (a) “Adoption service provider” means any of the …
§ 8503 “Adoptive parent” means a person who has obtained an order of …
§ 8506 “Agency adoption” means the adoption of a minor, other than an …
§ 8509 “Applicant” means a person who has submitted a written application to …
§ 8512 “Birth parent” means the biological parent or, in the case of a …
§ 8513 “County adoption agency” means an adoption agency operated by a …
§ 8514 “Days” means calendar days, unless otherwise specified.
§ 8515 “Delegated county adoption agency” means a county adoption agency …
§ 8518 “Department” means the State Department of Social Services.
§ 8521 (a) “Full-service adoption agency” means a licensed or …
§ 8524 “Independent adoption” means the adoption of a child in which neither …
§ 8527 “Intercountry adoption” means the adoption of a foreign-born child …
§ 8530 “Licensed adoption agency” means any agency licensed by the …
§ 8533 (a) “Noncustodial adoption agency” means any licensed entity …
§ 8539 “Place for adoption” means, in the case of an independent adoption, …
§ 8542 “Prospective adoptive parent” means a person who has filed or intends …
§ 8543 “Qualified court investigator” means a superior court investigator …
§ 8545 “Special needs child” means a child for whom all of the following are …
§ 8548 “Stepparent adoption” means an adoption of a child by a stepparent …
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Terms Used In California Codes > Family Code > Division 13 > Part 1 - DEFINITIONS

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Bureau: means the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau. See California Business and Professions Code 7601
  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • County: includes city and county. See California Food and Agricultural Code 29
  • County: includes city and county. See California Family Code 67
  • Director: means the Director of Consumer Affairs. See California Business and Professions Code 7601
  • order: include a decree, as appropriate under the circumstances. See California Family Code 100
  • person: includes any natural person, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, firm, or association. See California Government Code 7920.520
  • Person: includes a natural person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or public entity. See California Family Code 105
  • Process: includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature. See California Government Code 22
  • public records: includes any writing containing information relating to the conduct of the public's business prepared, owned, used, or retained by any state or local agency regardless of physical form or characteristics. See California Government Code 7920.530
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, or a commonwealth, territory, or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See California Family Code 145
  • Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which the term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Government Code 10
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
  • writing: means any handwriting, typewriting, printing, photostating, photographing, photocopying, transmitting by electronic mail or facsimile, and every other means of recording upon any tangible thing any form of communication or representation, including letters, words, pictures, sounds, or symbols, or combinations thereof, and any record thereby created, regardless of the manner in which the record has been stored. See California Government Code 7920.545