Question and answer - Foster care
14 questions and answers on Foster care
- What is the difference between biological and legal parenthood?
- What are the legal rights and duties of parents?
- Who looks after children if their parents die?
- Who is the father if I get divorced or my husband dies before the child is born?
- As the co-mother, how do I become the legal parent of my partner’s child?
- How do I become a child’s guardian?
- When do I stop being a guardian?
- What are the rights and duties of a guardian?
- What does responsibility for a child involve?
- What are the rights and duties of parental responsibility?
- When do I automatically get responsibility for a child?
- How can my partner and I apply for joint responsibility for a child?
- When does parental responsibility end?
- Who gets responsibility for my child if I die?