Persons and Family Relation

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RUANO, Mary Jannyn E.

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Persons and Family Relations
November 19, 2022

Republic Act 11642 also known as “Domestic Administrative Adoption and Child
Care Act”

Issued on July 26, 2022.

Salient Features:

- Aims to simplify the domestic administrative adoption proceedings and lessen the
cost and streamline services for alternative childcare.
- Ensure that every child remains under the care and custody of the parents and
be provided with love, care, understanding and security towards the full and
harmonious development of the child’s personality.

IRR of RA 11642, The Domestic Administrative Adoption and Alternative Child


Care Act

Salient Features:

- Shall provide for and allow simpler and inexpensive domestic administrative
adoption proceedings and shall streamline services for alternative childcare.
- It shall create the National Authority for Child Care or NACC, which shall exercise
all powers and functions relating to alternative childcare including declaring a
child legally available for both domestic administrative and intercountry adoption,
foster care, kinship care, family-like care, or residential care.

Administrative Matter No. 02-6-02 SC

Issued on April 19, 2022.

Salient Features:

- Courts may no longer receive or accept petitions for domestic adoption,


jurisdiction over the same being now lodged with the National Authority for Child
Care (NACC).
- To make adoptions proceedings administrative.
- Shall give petitioners time to manifest their intent to withdraw.
Department of Social Worker and Development (DSWD) Guidelines on Domestic
Adoption

Salient Features:

- To ensure immediate permanent placement of a child who is legally available for


adoption.
- Continue handling in coordination with the NACC:
1) Adoption cases withdrawn from the court
2) New petitions for administrative adoption
3) Child case management by DSWD residential care facilities / child caring
agencies and local social welfare and development offices
4) New applications for adoptive parents in the Regional Alternative Child Care
Office (RACCO)
5) Matching and issuance of Inter-country Adoption clearance
6) Procedure for foster care and simulated birth Rectification
7) Inter-country Adoption
8) Procedure for disrupted pre-adoptive Placement
9) Registration of the order of adoption
10) Petition for recission of adoption, and
11) Travel clearance for cases under the NACC jurisdiction.

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