SUMMARY

"AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE RULES TO GOVERN INTER-COUNTRY ADOPTION OF FILIPINO CHILDREN, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES"

Also known as: "The Inter-Country Adoption Act of 1995"

Signed: June 7, 1995

In order to provide neglected and abandoned children with a family, inter-country adoption shall be allowed when the same shall prove beneficial to the child's best interest and shall serve and protect the child's fundamental rights. To carry this out, an Inter-Country Adoption Board was created. It is the policy of this law to resort only to inter-country adoption when all possibilities for adoption of a child under the Family Code has been exhausted.