{"id":2840,"date":"2026-03-13T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:45:41","slug":"adoption-of-the-adult-child-of-the-partner-recognition-of-a-twenty-year-emotional-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/case-studies-typical-scenarios\/adoption-of-the-adult-child-of-the-partner-recognition-of-a-twenty-year-emotional-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Adoption of the adult child of the partner: recognition of a twenty-year emotional bond"},"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 fifty-eight-year-old man, married for twelve years to a woman who has a now thirty-year-old son born from a previous relationship. For twenty years that young man has grown up with him: he accompanied him to middle school, he helped him with high school, he took part in his graduation, he lent him the money for the down payment on his first home. But for Italian law they are nothing to each other. They are not relatives, they are not heirs, they have no mutual rights. If the stepfather were to die tomorrow, the wife&#8217;s son would inherit nothing. If the young man had an accident, the stepfather could not make medical decisions for him. A twenty-year emotional bond, real and profound, that the law simply does not recognise. The adoption of an adult person is the instrument that the Civil Code makes available to fill this void, but the proceeding is not automatic: it requires the demonstration of specific requirements, the consent of several subjects, the absence of prejudice for the adopter&#8217;s biological children, and an investigation by the Court that can hold unexpected complexities, especially when there are legitimate heirs who see their own succession expectations change.<\/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 fifty-eight-year-old man, married for twelve years [&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-2840","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\/2840","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=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familylawboschetti.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}