What is Adoption under Hindu's

 

Adoption

Who can adopt?

•      Both male and female can adopt

•      Major

•      Sound mind

•      Marital status:- they can be either unmarried, divorced, widowed or married (consent of the other spouse must be obtained)

Who can be adopted?

•      Father and Mother – yes

•      Other Person – No

•      Exceptions:- When a child can be given in adoption by another person

•      When the parentage of the child is not known

•      Where parents dead

•      Where parents have renounced the world

•      Where parents unsound

•      Where parents have abandoned the child

•      In these cases, the permission of the court has to be taken before granting permission, the court will consider two factors-

•            a) Adoption not for money

•            b) welfare of the child

Some other condition for adoption

Limit on adoption:-

•       a person cannot adopt a son if he/she already has a son, son’s son or son’s son’s son.

•       a person cannot adopt a daughter if he/she already has a daughter or son’s, daughter.

Age-gap:-

•      No minimum age gap in the case of the adoption of a child of the same sex.

•      the minimum age gap of 21 years in case of adoption of a child of the opposite sex.

 

Effects of adoption

Adoption once made is final and conclusive

          a) The adoptive parents cannot cancel the adoption

          b) The adoption child cannot renounce the adoption and go back his/her family of Birth.