581. The recognition of a decision granting an adoption produces the same effects as an adoption judgment rendered in Québec from the time the decision granting the adoption was pronounced outside Québec.
The recognition by operation of law of an adoption as provided for in the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption produces the same effects as an adoption judgment rendered in Québec from the time the decision granting the adoption is pronounced, subject to section 9 of the Act to implement the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (chapter M-35.1.3). Recognition of an Aboriginal customary adoption that took place outside Québec, but in Canada, produces, from the date on which the adoption took effect in the child’s State of origin, the same effects as an Aboriginal customary adoption certificate.
1991, c. 64, a. 581; 2004, c. 3, s. 19; 2017, c. 122017, c. 12, s. 331.