8616. After adoption, the adopted child and the adoptive parents shall sustain towards each other the legal relationship of parent and child and have all the rights and are subject to all the duties of that relationship.(Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10. Operative January 1, 1994.)
California Legal Code
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