15 Jul 2005
HEMMES V YOUNG SC CIV 27/2004
- Citation
- openlaw-62f9a543_aab0_4262_a63e_f5f0f78f1f37.pdf
- Court
- Supreme Court
For the purposes of s10 of the Status of Children Act 'relationship of father and child' means the legal relationship; an adoption order under s16(2) of the Adoption Act terminates the legal parent-child relationship with biological parents and substitutes adoptive parents for all legal purposes, therefore an adopted person cannot obtain a s10 declaration that a biological (non-adoptive) parent is legally the father.