Adoptions

It is an institution of family and social protection, and is a legal act by which it forms a family link between people who really have no blood ties. In Panama, as regards the adoption is normed in Act No. 18 of 2 May 2001.
International adoptions are regulated by Law 33 of 1998 approving the Convention Concerning the Protection of the Child and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry
Adoption, signed at La Haya on 29 May 1993.