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Child adoption is a process where a person assumes the guardianship of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents.
Legal child adoptions permanently transfer the rights and responsibilities to guardian, along with filiation, from the biological parent or parents.
Children of all ages need permanent, stable, loving families. The Department of Human Services at ZA-LLP ensures that children placed for adoption within Pakistan or across Pakistan or international lines benefit from all legal protections. Further assistance may be available to a child and their adoptive family. ZA-LLP offers complete, comprehensive and individual adoption services to adoptive parents and the couple intended to abandon their child in a professional, caring and supportive manner.
RIZWAN & ASSOCIATES - LLP | CHILD ADOPTION LAW - PAKISTAN
We Don't Offer the Services on account of Arrangement of Abandoned Children and only assist you in seeking the Legal Guardianship.
Adoption creates a legal parent / child relationship for:
Children whose birth parents make an adoptive plan;
Children adopted from outside Pakistan;
Children adopted by stepparents; and
Children who come under guardianship of the country.
CHILD ADOPTION & GUARDIANSHIP PROCESS IN PAKISTAN
When courts terminate parents' rights, children are placed in foster care and committed to the guardianship of the country. The department's goal is to find permanent homes, preferably through adoption, for all children under country guardianship. The country social service agency like Edhi Foundation caring for the child is responsible for identifying children's needs, finding an adoptive family and supporting the adoption placement.
The process of adopting a child under state guardianship is:
A court terminates parental rights and places a child under country guardianship;
Country agencies select a family who can best meet a child’s needs;
Private adoption agencies like Edhi Foundation assist and support the creation of a new family; and
The court finalizes the adoption under Guardians & Wards Act.
RA-LLP provides assistance, legal advice, and representation for identified, interstate, and family adoptions. We assist adoptive parents in completion of all the legal formalities which include drafting of Adoption Deed, filing of Petition for Guardianship before the appropriate Court of law and Application for allowing the adoptive parents to take the child outside the jurisdiction of the Court.
Our Child Adoption Services Include:
Completing adoption plans for adoptive parents who have identified the family or Birth mother intended to abandon their / her child;
Providing adoptive parents with the birth parents' background and medical informational;
Obtaining the birth mother's prenatal records and forwarding them for review by a medical professional of the adoptive parents choice;
Placement of the newborn child with adoptive parents upon discharge from the hospital;
Complying with Interstate Compact requirements (if adoptive parents reside outside Pakistan); and
Providing all legal services necessary to terminate the parental rights of the birth parents and finalization of the adoption by a Pakistani Court (Adoptive parents living outside of Pakistan are not usually required to return to Pakistan for the adoption finalization hearing).