( Actress Angelina Jolie and Actor Brad Pitt with their adopted children)
The Special Adoption Act went into effect on August, 5, 2012. This law governs inter-country adoption in South Korea. Among all the changes brought by the Special Adoption Act, the most significant change in inter-country adoption in the ROK is that now each inter-country adoption in ROK must receive the approval from the ROK Family court. Adoption agencies work through the Family court accompanied with the emigration permit(EP).
Under the Special Adoption Act, the first inter-country adoption was granted for the ‘Hall’ couple from Sweden on April 23, 2013. The adoption agency applied for the couple’s adoption of the child in January 2012. The Hall couple were summoned to the court to be interviewed in April, 2013 and the court finally granted the couple to adopt one-year-old boy.
Since the changes in the adoption act in the ROK, inter-country adoption takes more time then it did before and also requires appropriate legal counsels and aids. Now adoption in the ROK always includes rather complicated process in the court, it would be safe and better for the foreigners who want to adopt a child in ROK to get legal advice and help from attorney specializing in adoption.
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