When the adoption order is issued by the court, the child's legal relationship with the birth parents ends and the child gets new legal parents. The effect of this is that the adopted child become a member of the adoptive family just as if it had been a birth child of the adopters. After the adoption order, the birth parents have no parental responsibility for the child.
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