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Adoption Deed

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Adoptive parent(s)
Biological parents or guardian
The child and the adoption
Registration and signing

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Adoptive parent(s)

Who is adoptingNeeded

The Child is being adopted jointly by both spouses named below, as husband and wifeThe Child is being adopted by a single person, being a widow, widower, divorcee or unmarried person eligible to adopt alone under section 8 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956

Adoptive parent — full nameNeeded

For example: Rajesh Kumar Sharma

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The Adoptive Parent(s) areNeeded

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ADOPTION DEED

BETWEEN

__________, of __________ (together the "Adoptive Parents", which expression, where the context so requires, includes either of them acting alone),

AND

The person or persons giving the Child in adoption, described in Recital D below (the "Persons Giving in Adoption").

RECITALS

A. __________. The Adoptive Parents are __________, and are governed by the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 ("the Act") within the meaning of section 2 of that Act.

F. Each person executing this Deed does so voluntarily, understands the effect of adoption under the Act, and confirms that, to that person's knowledge, none of the conditions in sections 10 and 11 of the Act that would make this adoption void remains unsatisfied.

NOW THIS DEED WITNESSES as follows.

1. ADOPTION

1.1 The adoption of the Child by the Adoptive Parents recorded in Recital E is hereby confirmed and reduced to writing in this Deed, signed by the Persons Giving in Adoption and by the Adoptive Parents, for the purposes of section 16 of the Act.

2. EFFECT OF ADOPTION

2.1 From the date of adoption stated in Recital E, the Child shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be the child of the Adoptive Parents, and all ties of the Child in the family of the Child's birth shall be deemed to be severed and replaced by those created by the adoption in the adoptive family, as section 12 of the Act provides — save that the Child shall not marry any person whom the Child could not have married if the Child had continued in the family of the Child's birth, and any property that had vested in the Child before the adoption shall continue to vest in the Child, subject to the obligations, if any, attaching to it, including any obligation to maintain relatives in the family of the Child's birth.

2.2 The Adoptive Parents shall have, and may exercise, all the rights, and shall be subject to all the obligations, of a natural parent of the Child under the Act and under every other law for the time being in force, including the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956.

3. NO CONSIDERATION

3.1 No person has received or agreed to receive, and no person has given or agreed to give, any payment or reward in consideration of this adoption, and this Deed is not executed in contravention of section 17 of the Act.

4. REGISTRATION

5. GENERAL

5.2 If any provision of this Deed is held invalid or unenforceable, the rest of it continues in effect.

SIGNED by the ADOPTIVE PARENT(S)

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Signature: ______________________________

SIGNED by the PERSON(S) GIVING THE CHILD IN ADOPTION

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