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Adoption of Taylor-Clay

[2019] NSWSC 27

Supreme Court of NSW

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1. Family Law and Child Welfare
2. › child welfare under State legislation
3. › adoption
4. › adoption plans
5. › where plan provides inadequate opportunities for child to know and develop relationship with birth father, including in event of his incarceration
6. › held, plan not proper in the circumstances.
1. Family Law and Child Welfare
2. › child welfare under State legislation
3. › adoption
4. › names
5. › assumption of adoptive family’s’ surname is a fundamental feature of adoption and a manifestation of its benefits
6. › inclusion of former hyphenated surname as two additional middle names is in child’s interests as means of preserving the child’s identity.

Case Details

Citation[2019] NSWSC 27

CourtNSWSC

JurisdictionNew South Wales

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