Centre for Adoption Support-CfAS

"An adoption order is final and for life as regards to adopters, the natural parents, and the child. The child in this petition turns 18 years in a couple of days and granting this petition would mean creating a new parent and family for him separate from his brother and terminating his legal relationship with his biological father whom he has known in his childhood. He will lose his family tie...For that reason, I do not find it in the best interest of the child to grant him this adoption a few days before he attains majority age (adulthood)". Per Justice Celia Nagawa (12 February, 2024).