abandonment

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While some states still enforce these laws, they often include exceptions, including parental abandonment or failure to provide support, which would relieve the adult children of any liability.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 25, 2026

She was subsequently arrested on suspicion of animal abandonment and resisting arrest.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

The ITF's General Secretary Stephen Cotton tells the BBC that "abandonment isn't an accident".

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

They also pose severe hazards to people in the region through accidental release or abandonment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

Once he opened Melquíades' room, looking for the traces of a past from before the war, and he found only rubble, trash, piles of waste accumulated over all the years of abandonment.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez