"adoption decree" is a legitimate phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to the legal document that officially establishes the adoptive parent-child relationship. For example: The family was overjoyed when they received the adoption decree that finalized their new daughter's adoption.
(1) A copy of the final adoption decree, certificate or court order granting the adoption.
Back then, they told me about a slightly torn manila folder stuffed with documents — their marriage license, their son's adoption decree, among other things — that proved they were a family.
Otherwise, written and notarized permission from an absent parent or another documented explanation — like proof of sole custody of a child, an adoption decree or the death certificate of a deceased parent — must be supplied.
If that's not possible, another documented explanation, like proof of sole custody of a child, an adoption decree or the death certificate of the absent parent, can be presented instead.
The Cambodian government had already sent them an official "adoption decree," which allowed them legally to pick up their children, but without I.N.S. approval they could not bring them home.
If that's not possible, written and notarized permission from an absent parent or another documented explanation -- like proof of sole custody of a child, an adoption decree or the death certificate of a deceased parent -- must be supplied.
More formal records of similar provenance may be described as legal in the widest sense, comprising such objects as land deeds, cadastral inventories (tax surveys), wills, adoption decrees, and trial transcripts.
Because of those stories, my America is one where my family does not travel without those same documents — wills, advance directives, and medical powers of attorney — as well as our children's birth certificates and adoption decrees.
We carried passports, adoptions decrees, original birth certificates, letters from our agency and attorney and even photos of our "coming home" day.
Keep excellent records, including entry visas for foreign adoptions, a final decree, certificate or order of adoption and determination of any special needs status of the child.
A judge had certified that Geovany was eligible for adoption, but the decree was written up incorrectly, the lawyer said.
