137.Once an adoption order is made, any liabilities of the birth parent under the Child Support Act 1991 will cease to have effect. A parent for the purposes of that Act is defined as any person who is in law the mother or father of the child (see section 55(1) of that Act). Once a child is adopted the birth parent ceases to be the parent of the child, and the adoptive parents become the parents of the child for the purposes of that Act, therefore on adoption any existing maintenance assessment will cease to have effect and a court order (if any) for the child’s maintenance will cease by virtue of section 46(2)(c).
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