To the recovery of simple adoption in Spanish Law

Abstract

At present, new trends are gaining strength, defending the recourse to legal institutions that, while providing stability, are less rigid than full adoption, including open adoption and simple adop­tion. The present study analyses these legal institutions valuing the advantages of a possible reintroduction of simple adoption under Spanish law. The right of the adopted child to know his origin and his right to develop his own Identity might be enhanced as well through simple adoption. This article also examines the problems raised by the reintroduction of simple adoption in Spain, through the phenomenon of inter­country adoption. This paper proposes some solutions to the recognition of simple adoption under the Ha­gue Convention on adoption (1993), and under Arcitcle 30 of the Spanish Law on internacional adoption.