C-477 de 1999
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Reporting justice Carlos Gaviria Díaz
✓Claimant Ivan Manuel Urrutia Valenzuela
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- Finalidad
- Hijastros
- Igualdad de derechos y obligaciones
- Aplicación de normas sobre adopción a compañeros permanentes
- Posibilidad de adoptar hijos de la pareja
- Restricción
What it decided
Holdings on Decreto 2737/89. Hard data, verified against the operative part — citable.
Operative part (Resuelve)
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See the operative part (5 points)
- En merito de lo expuesto, la Corte Constitucional
- R E S U E L V E:
- Primero. Declarar EXEQUIBLES los articulos 89 salvo el inciso segundo, 91, 95 y 98 del decreto 2737 de 1989 (Codigo del Menor), unicamente por el cargo aqui analizado y siempre y cuando se entienda que dichas normas tambien son aplicables a los companeros permanentes que desean adoptar el hijo de su pareja.
- Segundo. Estarse a lo resuelto en la sentencia 108 del 19 de septiembre de 1991, de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, en la que se declaro exequible el inciso
- segundo. del articulo 89 del Decreto 2737 de 1989 (Codigo del Menor).
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