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Family Law / Parent-Child / Adoption and Parental Rights
Supplemental - Not MEE July 2026 Adoption and Parental Rights Family Law / Parent-Child Family Law / Parent-Child / Adoption and Parental Rights Family Law Parent-Child Family Law / Parent-Child Adoption and Parental Rig...
A child welfare agency seeks to terminate a parent's rights so foster parents can adopt. The parent objects and deman...
...n tests the constitutional and statutory threshold for termination of parental rights. Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 (1982), NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Citations: Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 (1982), NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
A biological parent signs written consent to adoption before a judge. Two weeks later, the parent seeks to revoke con...
A biological parent signs written consent to adoption before a judge. Two weeks later, the parent seeks to revoke consent, alleging regret but no fraud, duress, or statutory defect. The statute allows revocation only...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
A child eligible for tribal membership is the subject of a private adoption and termination proceeding. The agency kn...
A child eligible for tribal membership is the subject of a private adoption and termination proceeding. The agency knows of the child's tribal connection but did not notify the tribe before seeking termination. Which...
Citations: Indian Child Welfare Act, 25 U.S.C. sections 1901-1963, Haaland v. Brackeen, 599 U.S. 255 (2023)
A child's fit parent limits grandparent visitation. The grandparents ask a court to order more visitation solely beca...
...Which principle is most important? The question tests constitutional parental rights in third-party visitation disputes. Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000)
Citations: Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000)
A court enters a final adoption decree after statutory requirements are satisfied. Which statement best describes the...
A court enters a final adoption decree after statutory requirements are satisfied. Which statement best describes the ordinary legal effect of adoption? The question tests the legal effect of adoption. NCBE MEE Subjec...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
A parent with the ability to pay support and communicate has no contact with a child and pays no support for three ye...
...nt? The question tests abandonment as a ground affecting adoption and parental rights. NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
A stepparent seeks to adopt a child. The child's other living legal parent receives notice and objects. The stepparen...
A stepparent seeks to adopt a child. The child's other living legal parent receives notice and objects. The stepparent argues that adoption is in the child's best interests because the stepparent has provided daily ca...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 (1982)
An unwed biological father objects to an infant's adoption. He did not live with the child, but he paid prenatal expe...
...t describes the constitutional issue? The question tests unwed father rights in adoption. Lehr v. Robertson, 463 U.S. 248 (1983), Stanley v. Illinois, 405 U.S. 645 (1972)
Citations: Lehr v. Robertson, 463 U.S. 248 (1983), Stanley v. Illinois, 405 U.S. 645 (1972)
Child has lived with foster parents for one year. The foster parents want to become Child's legal parents, but the bi...
...nts want to become Child's legal parents, but the biological parents' rights have not been terminated and no adoption petition has been granted. Which statement is most accurate? The question tests the difference between...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Child is eligible for membership in Tribe and Child's biological father is an enrolled tribal member. Mother placed C...
...until after Prospective Adoptive Parents filed to terminate Father's rights and adopt Child. Father objects to termination. Tribe moves to intervene and asks that Child be placed with Child's adult aunt, who is also a t...
Citations: Indian Child Welfare Act, 25 U.S.C. sections 1901-1963, Haaland v. Brackeen, 599 U.S. 255 (2023), NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Child was removed from Parent's care after Parent left Child unattended overnight and Child was found wandering outsi...
...r a proper standard. Discuss whether the court may terminate Parent's parental rights and permit Foster Parents to pursue adoption. Address statutory grounds, burden of proof, efforts toward reunification, and best inter...
Citations: Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 (1982), NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Mother and Father divorced when Child was two. The decree gave Mother sole legal and physical custody and gave Father...
...and legal father and that Child's best interests cannot override his parental rights. The state adoption statute permits stepparent adoption without a legal parent's consent if the parent abandoned the child or willfull...
Citations: NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law, Santosky v. Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 (1982), Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000)
Mother became pregnant while dating Father. Father attended prenatal appointments, paid half of Mother's medical bill...
.... Father argues that he made prompt and substantial efforts to assume parental responsibility and was denied notice. Discuss Father's strongest arguments and Adoptive Parents' strongest arguments. Address unwed father ri...
Citations: Lehr v. Robertson, 463 U.S. 248 (1983), Stanley v. Illinois, 405 U.S. 645 (1972), NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Parent is Child's only living legal parent. Parent is employed, provides safe housing, and has never been found unfit...
...Parent's constitutional and statutory objections. This question tests parental constitutional rights against third-party visitation or adoption claims. Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000), NCBE MEE Subject Matter Out...
Citations: Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000), NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Prospective adoptive parents argue that adoption is in a child's best interests. A living legal parent objects and ha...
...urate? The question tests the relationship between best interests and parental-rights thresholds in adoption. Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000), NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Citations: Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000), NCBE MEE Subject Matter Outline, Family Law
Elena died intestate and unmarried. Zoe was legally adopted by Elena. Mark was Elena's stepchild, but Elena never ado...
...ted as a child by unrelated adoptive parents after Elena relinquished parental rights. The state follows the general modern parent-child rules for intestacy and has no equitable-adoption doctrine applicable on these fact...
Citations: Uniform Probate Code parent-child relationship principles
Divorce
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Adoption
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Marriage
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Annulment
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Separation
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Child Custody
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