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Supreme Court President Radovan Dobronic has examined the proceedings by Croatian courts concerning adoptions of children from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and found that 16 municipal courts dealt with such cases and none of the applications were denied, Croatia's highest court said on Tuesday.

Committee on the Family: Ban adoption from the Congo and establish expert body

25 January 2023

Zagreb - On Wednesday, the parliamentary Committee on the Family and Youth presented proposals to improve the law on inter-country adoptions, including a ban on adoptions from countries that are not signatories to the Hague Convention and for an expert body to monitor adoptions.

The Committee held a thematic session in light of the trial of eight Croatian citizens who went to Africa to adopt four children from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They were arrested in neighbouring Zambia on charges of attempted child trafficking.

Most children are adopted from Colombia, Ukraine, China, India and South Korea, and according to data from 2020, DR Congo is only in 19th place, said Professor Dubravka Hrabar from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb.

Judge says authenticity of decisions on DR Congo adoptions being verified

NEWS Author:Hina26.02.2023 18:18

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Supreme Court president Radovan Dobronic told N1 television on Sunday, that the authenticity of all decisions regarding the adoption of children from the DR Congo, that were upheld by Croatian courts, is being checked.

Under the revisions, single people can adopt if they are 25 or older and meet requirements to sufficiently guarantee the welfare of the children.

The South Korean Cabinet on Tuesday approved bills to allow single people to adopt children, as the number of one-person households is sharply increasing.

The Justice Ministry revised the Civil Act and the Family Litigation Act, which currently stipulate only married couples can legally adopt, reports Yonhap News Agency.

Under the revisions, single people can adopt if they are 25 or older and meet requirements to sufficiently guarantee the welfare of the children.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: She was just a year old when a Belgian couple, Maurice and Liliane Pollet, adopted her from The Holy Angels Convent’s orphanage in the state capital. Forty-one years later, Catherine Pollett has set out in search of her biological mother Sarala and unknown father, who she believes are from Thiruvananthapuram. Sister Mary of the convent, who acted as a link during the adoption process, could have been Catherine’s go-to person to trace them, but she is no more.

Kathy, as she is called, has the letters Sr Mary and the Belgian couple had exchanged in the 1980s and a few photos of the ayah, who had looked after her when she was a baby. Catherine is keen to meet the ayah too. She told TNIE from Belgium that her adoptive mother never spoke about Kerala, its culture or her biological parents.

“I was told that my mother had left me in a basket in front of an orphanage. The reason I’m searching for my biological parents is because I have certain health issues. If for any reason my biological family doesn’t wish to see me, I would at least love to see the pictures of my dad and mom,” said Catherine, who had stayed with her Belgian parents until she turned 23.

Sr Angel, the incumbent mother superior at The Holy Angels Convent, told TNIE that nearly 25 infants from the orphanage were adopted by various Belgian couples in the early 80s. “Catherine might have been one of them,” she said.

“I was a young nun back then and was studying at All Saints College. The orphanage was as old as the Holy Angels Convent, the 150th anniversary of which was celebrated in 2019. But the orphanage is no longer functioning. I got in touch with a few senior nuns who were close to the late Sr Mary, but they too are clueless about Catherine’s parents. We don’t know anything about the adoption register either,” said Sr Angel.

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The Danish Appeals Board can help review your international adoption case if you suspect that something illegal has happened in the case.

You can read more about the Danish Appeals Authority's guidelines for handling adoption cases with suspected illegal circumstances here .

Contact the Danish Appeals Board

If you would like to see the documents (file inspection) in your adoption case, you must contact Danish International Adoption (DIA) if you were adopted through AC Børnehjælp, Glemte Børn, DanAdopt or DIA.

Go to the DIAS website

FutureLife Medical Group, one of the world’s leading providers of assisted reproduction, has acquired the Nij Group, a Dutch market leader in this field. This was noted by Hospodá?ské noviny (HN). The FutureLife Clinic is owned by the Hartenberg Holding investment fund, which is part of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s (ANO) trust fund. The price of the deal has not been disclosed, but it will be in the hundreds of millions, according to HN.

The Nij Group is the largest private assisted reproduction provider in the Netherlands, where it has a 10% market share, HN wrote. “It consists of three clinics: Geertgen, Linge and Barrahus,” said Jozef Janov, managing partner of Hartenberg Capital, which manages the holding’s holdings.

The FutureLife Group becomes part of a large European health group. In addition to clinics, Hartenberg Capital will also acquire Serpha’s online pharmacy for infertility drugs and Legropharma, a wholesaler.

“For us, this is the largest acquisition FutureLife has made,” added Genoa. According to him, Dutch clinics will generate sales of over half a billion kronor and EBITDA, i.e. earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, will be 70 million kroner. The entire FutureLife group will then have a turnover of around 200 million euros, i.e. over five billion crowns. After the Spanish group IVI, FutureLife is number two on the European market.

After investing in the Netherlands, the FutureLife Group is already active in eight European countries. Own clinics in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Great Britain, Ireland, Romania, Finland and Estonia. There are a total of 42 clinics in these countries that perform 39,000 artificial insemination cycles each year. “Thanks to us, ten thousand children are born in Europe every year. After the acquisition of Dutch clinics, it will be almost twelve thousand, ”said Janov.

The observations were made by a division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Yashwant Varma on February 13 while hearing a plea of a man whose adopted son suffers from severe mental retardation.

The Delhi High Court recently held that a foreigner cannot claim a vested right to be appointed the legal guardian of a person with disabilities or claim protection guaranteed under Part III of the constitution as are available to Indian citizens.

The observations were made by a division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Yashwant Varma on February 13 while hearing the plea of a man whose adopted son suffers from severe mental retardation. The father had challenged the validity of certain rules and regulations prescribed National Trust for Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities Rules, 20001 and Board of the Trust Regulations, 2012 which “restrict the appointment of a guardian to a person who is an Indian citizen”.

The father alleged that Rule 17 as well as Regulation 12 are “ultra vires” the provisions of the National Trust for the Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities Act, 19993 (National Trust Act) which is the parent Act. It was argued that if the parent act does not disable a non-citizen from applying to be appointed as a guardian of a person with disabilities, then the rules and regulations cannot do so which are delegation legislation in this case.

The father and his adopted son are US citizens who relocated to India, after the breakdown of marital relations between the man and his wife, pursuant to which they legally separated. The father claimed that he had been granted legal custody of his son and has been acting as his primary caregiver since the time of adoption. Both the father and the son relocated to India in 2009 and hold Overseas Citizenship of India cards. The father sought to be appointed as the guardian of his son under the National Trust Act and claimed that his application for guardianship is barred by the said provisions of the rules and regulations which prescribe “citizenship to be an essential qualification”.

Biological or not, having children is a wonderful blessing. However, matters of adoption have always invited unwanted questions in the past. Thankfully, the stigma has now lessened down and we have to thank celebrities for that. While Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have won hearts for their beautiful rainbow family, Indian celebrities aren't any far behind.

If there's one celebrity, whose name comes into mind when we talk of adoption, it has to be Bollywood ace choreographer Sandip Soparrkar. The Choreographer was just 40 when he adopted his first child, Arjun, for which, he had to face a long legal battle. Making him the first single father to adopt in India.

Recently he went on to adopt another child, Kabir in the year 2021. While Sandip Soparrkar decision to become a single parent was quite unheard of, the choreographer often mentioned that he never felt the need to second guess his decision, and it all felt natural to him. Now he's become first Indian for being single father of two kids. Sandip's decision definitely opened a lot of doors for people who wished to embrace single parenthood in the country.

About Sandip Soparrkar's Adoption, Madhavi Mhatre, Director, BalAnand, Worldchildren Welfare Trust India, says, "It has been a very positive experience and pleasure to have Sandip Soparkar adopt yet again from our children's home. We had the joy of placing his first son Arjun with him, when we were convinced of his dedication and commitment. We have seen Arjun grow up to what he is today and had no hesitation in processing the adoption a second time when Kabir was chosen. What makes Sandip special, is not the fact that he has adopted, but his complete acceptance of the Child he adopted.”

The world does not undergo any change because a child is adopted, but for every adopted child his/her world changes after adoption. Soparrkar has always chosen the path less chosen and adopting the second time is something even rarer. We hope that many people get inspired by his decision and take steps towards creating a family through adoption.