Law Dictionary Definitions

foster-care drift.The phenomenon that occurs when children placed in foster care remain in that system, in legal limbo, for too many years of their developmental life before they are reunited with their parents or freed for adoption and placed in permanent homes. • The Adoption and Safe Families Act was passed in 1997 to help…

foster care. 1. A federally funded child-welfare program providing substitute care for abused and neglected children who have been removed by court order from their parents’ or guardians’ care or for children voluntarily placed by their parents in the temporary care of the state because of a family crisis. 42 USCA §§ 670–679a. • The…

fosterage,n.1. The act of caring for another’s child. 2. The entrusting of a child to another. 3. The condition of being in the care of another. 4. The act of encouraging or promoting.[Blacks Law 8th]

foster,adj.1. (Of a relationship) involving parental care given by someone not related by blood or legal adoption <foster home>.2. (Of a person) giving or receiving parental care to or from someone not related by blood or legal adoption <foster parent> <foster child>. foster,vb. To give care to (something or someone); esp., to give parental care…

fossage (fos-ij), n. Hist. A duty paid to maintain a moat around a fortification.[Blacks Law 8th]

forward triangular merger.See triangular merger under MERGER.[Blacks Law 8th]

forward-rate agreement.A contract that specifies what the interest rate on an obligation will be on some future date. — Abbr. FRA.[Blacks Law 8th]

forward market.See futures market under MARKET.[Blacks Law 8th]

forwarding agent.See AGENT(2).[Blacks Law 8th]

forward cover.The purchase of a cash commodity to meet the obligation of a forward contract. See forward contract under CONTRACT.[Blacks Law 8th]