Adoption Of Unborn Child Unknown To Law: Karnataka High Court
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The biological parents and adoptive parents of the child had filed a petition before a trial court to declare the latter as the adoptive parents and guardians of the baby girl they had adopted.
A division bench of the Karnataka High Court has said an agreement to adopt an unborn child is unknown to law.
The court dismissed an appeal filed by two couples who had entered an agreement in this matter.
"As on the date of the agreement, the child was in the womb of appellant No.4 and the child was born on 26-3-2020, i.e. after five days of the agreement entered into between the parties. Thereby, both parties entered into agreement in respect of an unborn child, which is unknown to law," the division bench of Justice B Veerappa and Justice KS Hemalekha said in their recent judgement.
The biological parents and adoptive parents of the child had filed a petition before a trial court to declare the latter as the adoptive parents and guardians of the baby girl they had adopted.
