Consequence of valid adoption.

An adopted child shall be deemed to be the child of his adoptive father or mother for all purposes with effect from the date of the adoption and all the ties of the child in the family of his birth shall deemed to be served and replaced by those created by the adoption in the adoptive family.

(a) The child cannot marry any person whom he could not have married if he or she had continued in the family of his birth;

(b) Any property which vested in the adopted child before the adoption shall continue to vest

(c) The adopted child shall not divest ay person of any estate which vested in him.

(d) It cannot be revoked or cancelled.

Doctrine of relation back.

Supreme Court has resurrected the doctrine of relation back in the cases of Sawanram and Sitabai. This means when a widow adopts a son, the adoption would be deemed to have taken place with effect from the date of the death of the deceased husband. The doctrine thus gave retrospective effect to adoption. An incidence of this retrospective effect was that the adopted son became entitled to all the properties which he would have got by inheritance or partition if he were in the adoptive family at the time of the death of his adoptive father.

 Valid adoption not to be cancelled. There shall be no payment or reward for adoption (Murugappa v. Nagappa).

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