Title VII — Adoption
Article 187
ELI5— what this means for you
Who may be adopted: (1) any person below 18 years of age who has been administratively or judicially declared available for adoption; (2) the legitimate child of one spouse by the other spouse; (3) an illegitimate child by a qualified adopter; (4) a person of legal age if prior to adoption they had been consistently considered and treated as a child by the adopter.
Official text — EO 209
The following may not be adopted:
(1) A person of legal age, unless he or she is a child by nature of the adopter or his or her spouse, or, prior to the adoption, said person has been consistently considered and treated by the adopter as his or her own child during minority.
(2) An alien with whose government the Republic of the Philippines has no diplomatic relations; and
(3) A person who has already been adopted unless such adoption has been previously revoked or rescinded. (30a, EO 91 and PD 603)
Source: lawphil.net (EO 209 as amended)
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