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The Adoption Law in Colombia
Autora: Patricia Alzate Monroy. La autora ha publicado artículos en las más
prestigiosas revistas internacionales especializadas en temas de Derecho
matrimonial y de familia como la revista "The International Survey of
Family Law", la cual recoge importantes artículos escritos por
catedráticos de Derecho de las más prestigiosas Universidades de todo el
mundo. |
The Colombian Civil Code is based on traditional
ideas which maintain than concepts such as paternity and filiation can
only be based on blood-ties, and that adoptive paternity can only be
recognised if it imitates as closely as possible a biological
relationship.
Adoption is giving the status of a legitimate son to one who was not
born into it. It is not accepted that any one can be adopted into the
status of a natural (extramarital) child. Adoption is the creation of a
family relationship between adopter and adopted child. It is referred to
as a civil family relationship.
According to José Alberto Rodriguez Carretero, adoption begins the
creation of legal relations between the parties, who are the adoptive
mother and father and the adopted child ...
Publicado por The International Survey of Family Law 1996. Editado por Andrew Bainham, miembro of Christ's College, Cambridge. Puede encontrarlo en University of Cambridge, U.K.
