Section 3: Provisions specific to simple adoption

Simple adoption confers the adopter’s name on the adopted person by adding it to the latter’s name. However, if the adopted person is over thirteen years of age, he or she must consent to this addition. Where the adopted person and the adopter, or one of them, bear a double surname, the name conferred on the adopted person results from the addition of the adopter’s name to his or her…

The adopter holds parental authority concurrently with the other member of the couple, who retains sole exercise of that authority, subject to a joint declaration with the adopter addressed to the director of the judicial registry services of the judicial court for the purposes of joint exercise of that authority.