Women's Rights
Mozambique
Does the law clearly state the process for amending birth registrations in adoption cases?
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Mozambique Legal Analysis
Adoption must be annotated on the birth record. Article 85(g) of the Civil Registry Code lists adoption and its revocation among the facts that must be entered into the birth record.
Articles 275-277 require that, narrative certificates for adopted children indicate only the adoptive parents, with the natural parents' details only when legally necessary (such as when initiating marriage process). This means that, when an adoption is finalized, the registrar amends the birth register to record the adoptive parents and restricts access to information about the natural parents.
The law does not specifically address issues with obtaining a domestic birth certificate for children adopted from foreign countries but will likely follow same process if adoptive parents are Mozambican.
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If surrogacy is legal, is there a defined process to register the internationally recommended data for surrogate births?
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Mozambique Legal Analysis
Mozambican law does not provide a specific procedure for registering births resulting from surrogacy arrangements. Surrogacy is not regulated, so the general birth-registration rules apply. The woman who gives birth is recorded as the mother (Articles 140-144) unless a court decides otherwise. No amendment procedure exists to reflect intended parents in surrogacy cases.