Practice question
A qualified Filipino applicant is 27 and seeks to adopt an unrelated 12-year-old. No age-difference waiver applies. Which qualification is deficient on these facts?
- Citizenship necessarily fails.
- The applicant is below 25.
- The applicant is necessarily a minor.
- The 15-year difference does not meet the general 16-year requirement.
- Every unrelated child is categorically unadoptable.
Legal references
- RA11642 Section21, Who May Adopt; https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2022/ra_11642_2022.html
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