19 May 2011, 10:16
The bill (Reg. No.7332) amends the Family Code of Ukraine concerning improvement of the children adoption, namely, it bans adoption by the individuals requiring outside assistance due to their health conditions; stateless persons married to the citizens deprived of a right to adopt children.
The document gives right to adopt a child without parental consent, if its parents failed to take a baby from the health care institution during two months.
Furthermore, the bill supplements the list of circumstances when a child who is a citizen of Ukraine can be adopted by a foreign citizen by the end of one-year term of registration in the governmental body in charge of state adoption, and child´s rights protection in case all the brothers and sisters of the child are adopted in one family if they have been registered in the same governmental body for one year.
The draft is registered under Reg. No. 7332.