The Weekly Law Reports
[1967] 3 WLR 1438
[CHANCERY DIVISION]
In re
B (S.) (AN INFANT)
1967 July 13,
21
GOFF J.
Adoption
— Jurisdiction of court
— Foreign element
— Parent domiciled abroad
— English applicants
— Mother of child obtaining divorce in England
— Spanish father resident in Spain
— Recognition by Spanish courts of English adoption order
— Impact of foreign law on English adoption order
— Whether adoption order for “welfare” of child
— Evidence
— Order dispensing with parent's consent
—
Adoption Act, 1958 (7 Eliz. 2, c. 5), ss. 1, 5, 7.
Conflict of Laws
— Adoption
— Foreign parent
— Child resident in England
— English applicants
— Jurisdiction of court to make adoption order
—
Adoption Act, 1958, s. 1.