{"id":2836,"date":"2026-03-13T14:37:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:43:35","slug":"international-adoption-by-a-single-person-when-the-law-opens-a-path-that-few-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/case-studies-typical-scenarios\/international-adoption-by-a-single-person-when-the-law-opens-a-path-that-few-know-about\/","title":{"rendered":"International adoption by a single person: when the law opens a path that few know about"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hypothetical case study developed on the basis of our experience with families dealing with international matters, intended to illustrate the type of operations the Firm is able to structure and manage for clients with a similar profile; the scenario does not refer to any specific case actually handled.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A forty-five-year-old professional, unmarried, wishes to adopt a child. The answer she receives from everyone she consults is always the same: in Italy single people cannot adopt. But that is not exactly true. Italian law provides a specific exception, art. 44, comma 1, lettera d) of Law 184\/1983, which allows adoption in special cases when the impossibility of pre-adoptive fostering has been ascertained, and case law has progressively broadened the interpretation of this rule. At the international level, some countries expressly allow adoption by single persons, and the Hague Convention does not exclude it. The path exists, but it is narrow, complex and very few professionals know it in depth: it requires the identification of the right country, the eligibility decree of the Juvenile Court formulated in a way specific for a single person, an authorised body with experience in this type of adoption, and the recognition in Italy of a foreign judgment that our legal system does not provide in the ordinary form. A viable path, but only with a specialist legal competence able to move between the folds of Italian and international legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypothetical case study developed on the basis of our experience with families dealing with international matters, intended to illustrate the type of operations the Firm is able to structure and manage for clients with a similar profile; the scenario does not refer to any specific case actually handled. A forty-five-year-old professional, unmarried, wishes to adopt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-studies-typical-scenarios"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}