{"id":1499,"date":"2025-06-18T21:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/?post_type=derechos&#038;p=1499"},"modified":"2026-02-17T16:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:16:36","slug":"can-i-adopt-my-partners-child","status":"publish","type":"derechos","link":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/rights\/can-i-adopt-my-partners-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I adopt my partner's daughter, son or daughter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, the Childhood and Adolescence Code, in Article 68, states that the spouse or permanent partner may adopt the child of his or her partner, as long as he or she can prove uninterrupted cohabitation of at least two (2) years. In this case, it is not necessary that there is an age difference of 15 years between the minor and the adopter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Note:<\/strong> According to the Constitutional Court, in SU-617 of 2014, when the administrative authority excludes the possibility of adoption by consent on the basis of the homosexual nature of the requesting couple, it violates the rights of all of them to family autonomy and to have a family, because it ignores, without any reason to justify it, the existence of a family arrangement in which the child, by the will of his or her biological father or mother, shares life with the partner of the same sex, and in which a solid and stable bond is formed, the existence of a family arrangement in which the minor, at the will of his or her biological father or mother, shares his or her life with a partner of the same sex, and in which a solid and stable bond is formed between them, on the basis of which the adult has assumed the obligations and duties associated with the filial bond.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","grupo-derecho":[108],"categoria-derecho":[109],"class_list":["post-1499","derechos","type-derechos","status-publish","hentry","grupo-derecho-adopcion-igualitaria","categoria-derecho-familia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/derechos\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/derechos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/derechos"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"grupo-derecho","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grupo-derecho?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"categoria-derecho","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombiadiversa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria-derecho?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}