The Gujarat High Court on Friday held that a registered deed of adoption is enough to prove the validity of adoption of a child under Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, and that there is no requirement to have a civil court decree asserting such deed, for change in birth records.

The court was hearing a bunch of petitions in which the question before the court was whether the competent authorities can refuse to change the birth records in the absence of a decree of a competent court.

While allowing the petitions, the single judge bench of Justice Biren Vaishnav held:

“The parties to the Registration Deed have consented to take the child in adoption. No objections have come from the biological father with regard to the mode and the manner of adoption and therefore as held that the presumption though being rebuttable no roadblock or dispute has been raised for the adoption of the child, relegating the parties then to undertake the rigmarole of approaching the Court when the deed of adoption is filed before the Registrar would not render the Registrar powerless to make the corrections.”

Kaushal Pandya, the counsel appearing for Surat Municipal Corporation, contended that unless the parties approach the appropriate court under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 and obtain decrees for validating adoption, no request for alterations of name in the birth certificates can be entertained.

The Supreme Court has issued a clarification with respect to the order

passed by it in a petition filed by an unmarried woman seeking termination of

pregnancy. After the AIIMS reported that there was high probability of the

baby coming out alive if the 29-week pregnancy was attempted to be

terminated, the Court had persuaded the woman to opt for delivery. The

If survivors of forced adoption fighting for a parliamentary inquiry in Western Australia get their way, they believe it will be partly thanks to an Albany woman's traumatic story.

Danae only found out last year, at the age of 50, that she was adopted when, she said, a relative dropped the bombshell by text.

"I cried for I don't know how long … days and weeks," she said.

"It was like this big hole in the ground opened up and swallowed me in.

"It was overwhelming."

As of 1 May 2023, Lonneke Kapoen will become Director of Advice, Direction and Central Authority at the Directorate-General for Punishment and Protection of the Ministry of Justice and Security.

The Directorate for Advice, Direction and Central Authority (ARC) provides expertise to the Directorate-General for Punishment and Protection (DGSenB) by advising, facilitating and testing (solicited and unsolicited) on policy issues in the areas of finance, business operations and legal affairs , information provision and subsidies. In addition, the management supports the DGSenB in the implementation of work processes, but above all in cooperation with all organizations, such as DJI, Child Protection Board, probation organizations, CJIB, OM, ZM, Police. In addition, the director is responsible for the Central Authority for International Children's Affairs (CA) and has an important liaison function in international child abduction, child protection and adoption.

Eric Bezem: “I am very pleased that Lonneke will join the DG with her energy, broad experience and clout. Lonneke is collaborative and with her open and curious attitude she will be appreciated both within and outside the DG.”

Lonneke Kapoen: “Let policy work, that is my motto. No impact without good policy. How wonderful to be able to bridge the gap between policy and implementation within the chain of punishment and protection in this position. I look forward to contributing to a safe and just society. In this position I can create the conditions and fulfill the connecting role for a good translation of politics and policy into implementation and vice versa. I look forward to working with colleagues in the department as well as with all partners outside it."

Lonneke Kapoen has been working at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate since 2017. Currently as department manager Implementation Policy where she is responsible for easily implementable policy for enterprising Netherlands. Previously, she worked at the Ministry of Justice in Security in various (management) positions in implementation, staff and policy and at the European Union. Her areas of work have always been at the intersection of policy and implementation and the proper translation of these to society. Lonneke brings a lot of (implementation) knowledge in the areas of finance, legal frameworks, data-driven working, subsidy schemes and process design. She has also earned her spurs several times within the international playing field.

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PATNA: An Italian couple on Tuesday, adopted a 7-year-old girl Kristina from Vishisht Dattak Grahan Sansthan, an orphanage, being operated under the aegis of the District Child Protection Unit.

Kristina, who was found wandering at the Patna railway station by a police officer in 2019, was handed over to the couple Christina Margotta and Luna Celestini by assistant director, District Child Protection Unit, Uday Kumar Jha, after getting an order from the Family Court, Patna on Tuesday.

The couple completed all the procedures according to the provisions of the Adoption Guide 2022, issued by the Union ministry of women and child development, Government of India.They applied for the adoption of a child about 3 years ago. Kristina was registered on the adoption site in 2019 after newspaper advertisements failed to locate her biological parents.

Any couple with sound physical and mental health is qualified to adopt a child, if they have been happily married for at least two years and have given their mutual consent for adoption.

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A child should not be lost in its search for paternity, said the court, directing family courts adjudicating between warring parents to order DNA tests only as a last resort

The Supreme Court has held in a judgment that children cannot be mechanically subjected to DNA tests in each and every case between warring parents as a short-cut to establish proof of infidelity.

“Genetic information is personal and intimate,” a Bench of Justices V. Ramasubramanian and B.V. Nagarathna observed in a judgment. “It sheds light on a person’s very essence... The information goes to the very heart of who she or he is,” the judgment added, emphasising that “a child’s genetic information is part of his fundamental right to privacy.”

“Children have the right not to have their legitimacy questioned frivolously before a court of law. This is an essential attribute of the right to privacy. Courts are therefore required to acknowledge that children are not to be regarded like material objects, and be subjected to forensic/DNA testing, particularly when they are not parties to the divorce proceeding. It is imperative that children do not become the focal point of the battle between spouses,” Justice Nagarathna, who authored the judgment, underscored.

‘Psychological trauma’

It must remain possible to adopt children from the United States. Some 400 adoptive parents plead for this in a letter to the House of Representatives. After a damning report from the Joustra committee about abuses in the adoption system, all international adoptions were suspended. Last November, the government came up with the plan to make adoption from 6 selected countries possible again, but the US was not among them.

Adoptive parents to Parliament: It must remain possible to adopt children from the US

"The abuses that occurred in the years before 1998, to which I add that the US was not yet an adoption country at that time, have led to a call for: there must be more transparency, the process must be easy to follow, there must be no drugs The United States as an adoption country meets all these conditions," says adoptive parent and one of the initiators Reinout van Haperen in the NOS Radio 1 Journaal.

Cabinet

According to the government, there is enough suitable care available for children in the United States and it therefore does not want children to be brought to the Netherlands for adoption. Van Haperen sees it differently. "What the cabinet does not say is that there are approximately 120,000 children in America that are adoptable, of which no more than half are adopted domestically each year. Those other children always remain in changing foster care."

Openly gay Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana bucks coalition position, votes for legislation sponsored by MK Yorai Lahav-Hertzano, who slams government as most LGBTQ-phobic ever

The Knesset rejected on Wednesday an opposition lawmaker’s bill that sought to officially enable same-sex couples and single people to adopt children.

The bill, proposed by Yesh Atid MK Yorai Lahav-Hertzano, was defeated in a preliminary reading by 45 votes against, and 37 in favor.

Current law, dating back to 1981, states that only a “man and his wife” are permitted to adopt children in Israel. However, the courts have the power to enable singles (including a single person in a same-sex relationship) to adopt in exceptional situations. According to the Aguda-The Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel, adoption agencies give priority to heterosexual couples so that even those singles who are able to apply are pushed down the list to receive a child to the point where their chances of success dwindle to almost nothing. In addition, the partner of a single person who adopts a child is not recognized as also being a parent.

Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana, an openly gay lawmaker for the coalition Likud party, broke ranks from the government’s stance of opposing the bill and voted in favor.

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