What is the difference between adoption and guardianship?
A guardianship does not end the parent child relationship. It only establishes another separate legal relationship between the guardian and the child. On the other hand, adoption permanently ends the biological parent’s rights and obligations. The adopting parents become legally the child’s parents with all the rights and responsibilities as a parent.
Adoption is the permanent legal assumption of all parental rights and responsibilities for a child. Adoptive parents have the same legal rights and responsibilities as parents whose children are born to them. A guardian is someone appointed by the court to care for a child until he or she is 18. The court can make a decision about guardianship whether or not the parent agrees.
Adoption is the permanent legal assumption of all parental rights and responsibilities for a child. Adoptive parents have the same legal rights and responsibilities as parents whose children are born to them. A guardian is someone appointed by the court to care for a child until he or she is 18. If you become a guardian, the court grants you the right to make most decisions regarding the child. A guardian is not a child’s legal parent and may be subject to ongoing supervision of the court. Guardianship does not give all the legal rights and responsibilities of a parent to the guardian the way adoption does to an adoptive parent. The court can make a decision about guardianship whether or not the parent agrees.
Adoption is the permanent legal assumption of all parental rights and responsibilities for a child. Adoptive parents have the same legal rights and responsibilities as parents whose children are born to them. Guardianship establishes responsibility, which is not permanent, for caring for and financially supporting a child and may be subject to ongoing supervision of the court.
