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Article: Adoptive parents must be 21 years older than child
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- New Straits Times
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- December 1, 2002
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New Straits Times
12-01-2002
Adoptive parents must be 21 years older than child
Edition: 2*
Type: Special report
Memo: Special report - (Adoption child).
AN adoption order granted by the court cements the relationship between the adoptive parents and the child.
The child becomes legally theirs and will be no different from a child born into the family.
The child will be accorded the right to inheritance and the parents would now have duties and obligations towards this child.
However, keeping a child without an adoption order (de facto adoption) is not an offence.
"But then, the question is do you want to be recognised as a legal parent?" asks lawyer Balwant Singh, family law specialist.
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