Fitness at Legal Glossary
What is it? The ability of a prospective adoptive parent to provide for the best interests of a child. A court may consider many aspects of the prospective parents lives in evaluating their fitness to adopt a child, including financial stability, marital stability, career obligations, other children, physical and mental health and criminal history.Law Definition Added By: Kylie
The Fitness definition has been viewed 1211 Time(s)!
Send To Friends!
If you'd like to send the Fitness definition to yourself or to your friends/colleagues, just enter the e-mail addresses in the boxes below -We hope you now understand the meaning of Fitness. If you need any more information on this term, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Other Similar Legal Terms:
Law Terms marriage license is A document that authorizes a couple to get married, usually available from the county clerks office in the state where the marriage will take place. Couples pay a small fee for a marriage license, and must often wait a few days before it is issued. In addition, a few states require a short waiting period--usually not more than a day--between the time the license is issued and the time the marriage may take place. And some states still require blood tests for couples before they will issue a marriage license, though most no longer do.Law Terms hot pursuit is An exception to the general rule that a police officer needs an arrest warrant before he can enter a home to make an arrest. If a felony has just occurred and an officer has chased a suspect to a private house, the officer can forcefully enter the house in order to prevent the suspect from escaping or hiding or destroying evidence.
Law Terms shotgun charge is See dynamite charge.
Law Terms autopsy is A physicians examination of the body of a deceased person to determine the cause of death.
Law Terms expunge is To intentionally destroy, obliterate or strike out records or information in files, computers and other depositories. For example, state law may allow the criminal records of a juvenile offender to be expunged when he reaches the age of majority, to allow him to begin his adult life with a clean record. Or, a company or government agency may routinely expunge out-of-date records to save storage space.