The Spanish legislation on national adoption establishes the following requirements for adopters and adopted persons:
For adopters:
Be over twenty-five years old. In the case of adoption by two people, it will be enough for one of them to have reached this age.
The age difference between the adopter and the adopted person will be at least sixteen years and cannot exceed forty-five years. When there are two adopters, it will be enough for one of them not to exceed the maximum age difference with the adopted person.
Have been declared suitable for the exercise of parental authority by the competent public entity.
For the adopted person:
Only unemancipated minors can be adopted. By exception, it will be possible to adopt an adult or emancipated minor when, immediately before emancipation, there has been an uninterrupted situation of foster care or cohabitation for at least one year.
Descendants or second-degree relatives of the collateral line by consanguinity or affinity cannot be adopted.
The child protection services of the autonomous communities and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla have the competence to process adoption files.
Automatically translated with OpenAI from Spanish