After adoption, the adopted child and the adoptive parents shall sustain towards each other the legal relationship of parent and child and have all the rights and are subject to all the duties of that relationship.
Cal. Fam. Code § 8616
General Provisions
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 93 Cal. App. 4th 218 - Sharon S. v. Superior Court (2002)
Most recently applied in S.H. v. M.M. (In re C.E.) (January 2019)
Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.