crvs:Adoption

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A legal act by which one or more persons acquire the status of parent to a child, creating a parent-child relationship that did not previously exist in law. Distinguishes full adoption (where prior biological filiation is replaced) from simple adoption (where it is preserved alongside the new bond), following civil-law traditions and the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption.

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Supertypes

VitalEvent

Properties

Property Type Definition
Event date from VitalEvent date
The date on which the vital event (birth, death, marriage, etc.) occurred. Distinct from the registration date, which is when the event was recorded by a registration authority.
Event date estimated from VitalEvent boolean
Whether the event date is an estimate rather than a known exact date. Common for late-registered births or deaths where the precise date is not documented.
Event location from VitalEvent concept:Location
The specific place where the vital event occurred (for example, the hospital of birth or the place of death). Distinct from the registration location, which is where the event was recorded.
Registration date from VitalEvent date
The date on which the vital event was officially registered with the civil registration authority. May be later than the event date, especially for late registrations.
Registration location from VitalEvent concept:Location
The civil registration office where the vital event was registered. Often a municipal or district-level registry distinct from the place of occurrence.
Registration type from VitalEvent string (crvs/registration-type)
The regime under which the registration was processed: current (within the legal window), late, court-ordered, or reconstruction of a lost record. Affects legal weight and downstream uses.
Registrar from VitalEvent concept:crvs/Person includes Parent
The civil registration officer who recorded the event. In many jurisdictions this is the officer whose signature appears on the acte.
Informant from VitalEvent concept:crvs/Person includes Parent
The person who declares the vital event to the civil registration authority. Typically a parent for births, a relative or medical professional for deaths, or the parties themselves for marriages.
Registration status from VitalEvent string (crvs/registration-status)
The lifecycle state of the registration process for this vital event: whether it is declared, pending validation, registered, rejected, cancelled, or has been corrected or archived.
Identifiers from Event concept:Identifier
Identifiers carried by this entity, such as national ID numbers, program IDs, or identifiers asserted by an identity document.
Adoptee concept:crvs/Person includes Parent
The person being adopted in an adoption event. Typically a minor, but adult adoption exists in some jurisdictions.
Adoptive parents concept:crvs/Parent
The parents who acquire parental rights through the adoption, each captured as a Parent link entity with parental_role set to adoptive.
Previous parents concept:crvs/Parent
The parents whose legal relationship with the adoptee is modified or terminated by the adoption. Present in full adoption (where biological parental rights end); often absent in simple adoption (where they are preserved).
Adoption type string (crvs/adoption-type)
Whether the adoption is full (biological filiation is entirely replaced) or simple (biological filiation is preserved alongside the new parental link). Key distinction in civil-law traditions.
Judgment date date
The date of the court judgment that granted a divorce, annulment, adoption, paternity recognition, or other court-ordered vital event. Distinct from the registration date.
Judgment reference string
The case number or other identifier of the court judgment that ordered this vital event. Enables retrieval of the underlying judicial record.
Court string
The court that issued the judgment for a divorce, annulment, adoption, paternity recognition, or other court-ordered vital event.

Evidence

Standard Equivalent Match
OpenCRVS v2 event service No v1 equivalent none
Adoption is not modelled as a distinct event type in OpenCRVS v2 core or the Farajaland reference config. Adoption scenarios would require a country-specific EventConfig.

Referenced by this concept

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