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Section 192
Foreign

who can adopt or adopt (1) Any of the following foreigners may be allowed to adopt a Nepali citizen or a child of a foreigner residing in Nepal as an adopted son or daughter:-
(a) A couple who do not have a son or daughter even after ten years of marriage,
(b) Unmarried, widowed, divorced or judicially separated women who have not attained the age of forty-five years and have not attained the age of fifty-five years, without sons or daughters,
(c) A man who has reached the age of forty-five years and has not reached the age of fifty-five years, is unmarried, widowed, divorced or legally separated and does not have a son or daughter.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), no alien shall be permitted to adopt a son or daughter-in-law of any of the following :-
(a) is not at the address,
(b) Being found guilty by the court of Nepal or the relevant country in a criminal charge showing moral turpitude.
(3) Notwithstanding anything written in sub-section (1), if the law of a foreign country provides that a citizen of that country may adopt more than one child, he may adopt a son or daughter even if he has a son or daughter.
(4) Notwithstanding anything written elsewhere in this section, a person from a country that prohibits the adoption of a son or daughter by adoption or discriminates between the rights of adopted son or daughter and the rights of natural born sons and daughters cannot adopt a son or daughter from Nepal.