Legal Status of Women in Iowa

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d the terms of agreement. If the minor is more than twelve years of age and n

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endorsed upon such agreement, and signe

or has abandoned his family, or is for any c

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uct toward said minor child, an unsuitable person to retain the guardianship and control the education of such child, the court may, if it find the allegations in the complaint manifestly true, appoint a proper guardian for the child, and

who for any cause became the guardian of her minor child, is in like manner f

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t least four months in each year, if there be a school in the district, and at all t

children. Wh

the minor child of another, conferring thereby upon such child all the rights, privileges and respons

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have been and remain abandoned by them, then the consent of the mayor of the city where the child is living, or if not in a city, then the clerk of the district court of the county where the child is living, shall be given to such adoption, by an instrument in writing signed by the parties or party consenting, and stating the names of t

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ice in the county where the person adopting resides, and shall be indexed with the name of the parents by adoption as grantors and the child as grantee, in its original name if stated in the instrument, [§3500.] A strict compliance in every parti

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by lawful birth. [§3501]. The right of a child by adoption to inherit from the parents by adoption, depends upon a strict compliance with the requirements of the law in every particular, including the acknowledgment and recording of the articles of adoption. It is also essential

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ty where the parent resides; or the court may, on showing of the facts, require from the adopted parent, bond with security, in a sum to be fixed by him, the county being the obligee, and for the benefit of the child, conditioned for the proper treatment and

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in case of his abandoning or neglecting to provide for his children, the mother shall be considered their legal guardian for the purpose of making surrender of them to the charge and custody of such corporation; and in all cases whe

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abitual drunkard, or imprisoned for crime, and the mother of such child is an habitual drunkard or is in prison for crime, or the inmate of a house of ill-fame, or is dead or has abandoned her family, or that the

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sections, such home becomes the legal guardian of such child, and may exercise the rights and author