Words / P / Law

parental responsibility

noun

B1CEFR level
28/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

The legal rights, duties and authority a parent has in relation to a child and the child's property.

As the father was not married to the mother, he acquired parental responsibility only when he was named on the birth certificate.

Topic: Family law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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