Section 1: Placement with a view to adoption

Placement with a view to adoption concerns wards of the state or children judicially declared abandoned. In the case of full adoption, it also concerns children for whom adoption has been validly and definitively consented to. This placement takes effect on the date on which the child is actually handed over to the future adopters.

If the parents have requested the return of the child whose filiation has been established, the child may not be placed until a ruling has been given on the merits of this request at the request of the most diligent party. Where the child’s filiation has not been established, there can be no placement with a view to full adoption for a period of two months from the time the…

The prospective adopter(s) shall perform the usual acts of parental authority in relation to the person of the child from the time the child is handed over until the adoption judgment is delivered.

Placement with a view to full adoption precludes any return of the child to his or her family of origin. It defeats any declaration of filiation and any recognition. If the placement with a view to adoption ceases or if the court refuses to grant the adoption, the effects of this placement are retroactively resolved.