Title VII — Adoption
Article 192
ELI5— what this means for you
The adopter may also petition to rescind the adoption if the adopted person has committed the grounds in Art. 191. Upon rescission, all rights arising from adoption are revoked and the adoptee reverts to the legal status they had before adoption.
Official text — EO 209
The adopters may petition the court for the judicial rescission of the adoption in any of the following cases:
(1) If the adopted has committed any act constituting ground for disinheriting a descendant; or
(2) When the adopted has abandoned the home of the adopters during minority for at least one year, or, by some other acts, has definitely repudiated the adoption. (41a, PD 603)
Source: lawphil.net (EO 209 as amended)
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