DEED OF ADOPTION

THIS DEED OF ADOPTION made at Mumbai this ……. day of 20….

BETWEEN

Shri …………, age ………years, occupation - pensioner, resident of ……………….at……(Name of Place), hereinafter called the NATURAL FATHER, (which expression shall, unless repugnant to the context, mean and include his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns) of the First Part

AND

Smt………………, age …………years, occupation - service, resident of…………at………….(Name of Place), hereinafter called the DONEE, (which expression shall, unless repugnant to the context, mean and include her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns) of the Second Part

AND

Shri, ………….age ………… years, occupation - business, resident of…………………at………(Name of Place), hereinafter called the ADOPTIVE FATHER, (which expression shall, unless repugnant to the context, mean and include his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns) of the Third Part.

WHEREAS the natural father and the natural mother are husband and wife;

AND WHEREAS ..................., a minor, aged ….. years, is the son of the natural father and the natural mother;

AND WHEREAS the adoptive father expressed his desire to take ................... in adoption, which the natural father and the natural mother have agreed to do;

AND WHEREAS the parties hereto are desirous of recording and reducing down into writing the terms and conditions of the adoption under these presents;

NOW, THIS WITNESSES as follows:

1. That the natural father has this day given his son, ..................., in adoption to the adoptive father, and the said adoptive father has taken the said ................... in adoption. And the said ................... has been transferred from the family of his birth to the family of adoption.

2. That the party of the second part being natural mother of the said ................... has consented to the natural father for giving in adoption their son ................... to the adoptive father, which is testified by her being a party hereto and executing these presents.

3. That the ceremony of giving and taking in adoption has been duly performed and carried out in the presence of near relatives, and the said party hereto of the first part being the natural father has handed over the said ................... to the party hereto of the third part being the adoptive father, and the said party hereto of the third part being the adoptive father has accepted has the said ................... as his son which handing-over has been done with the consent of the party hereto , the second part being the natural mother of ....................

4. That the said ................... will now be known as …………..

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties hereto have signed hereunder at Mumbai the date first above mentioned.

Sd/- …………

NATURAL FATHER

(Party of the First Part)

Sd/- …………..

NATURAL MOTHER

(Party of the Second Part)

Sd/- ………..

ADOPTIVE FATHER

(Party of the Third Part)

Witnesses:

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