2021 QCCQ 7142, 2021 QCCQ 7142

Adoption — 21296 2021 QCCQ 7142 COURT OF QUEBEC CANADA PROVINCE OF QUEBEC DISTRICT OF […] TOWN OF […] Youth Division No: 640-43-000147-218 DATE: May 28, 2021 (written judgment rendered on July 6, 2021) ______________________________________________________________________ BY THE HONOURABLE PEGGY WAROLIN J.C.Q. ______________________________________________________________________ IN THE MATTER OF: X , born on […] [SOCIAL WORKER 1], Youth Protection worker, duly authorized by the Director of Youth Protection A C.Y.P.C., working in [...] Applicant and A & B, residing and domiciled at [...] Applicant-Adopters ______________________________________________________________________ JUDGMENT FOR PLACEMENT FOR ADOPTION (Section 566 and following of the Civil Code of Québec ) ______________________________________________________________________ WARNING: The judicial and administrative files concerning the adoption of a child are confidential and no information contained in them may be revealed except as required by law. (sections 12 to 16 C.C.P. and 582 C.C.Q.). [ 1 ] The Court is seized with an application for a placement for adoption. [ 2 ] The Applicant is an authorized member of the Director’s staff for the A C.Y.P.C. [ 3 ] The Applicant-adopters have been living together as de facto spouses for more than three (3) years. [ 4 ] The Applicant-adopters are of major age. [ 5 ] The child to be adopted was born on […]. [ 6 ] The biological mother and father have consented to the adoption since 2014. [ 7 ] The Applicant-adopters have been the foster family of the child, assuming her care, maintenance and education since she was born. [ 8 ] The Applicant submits that more than thirty (30) days have elapsed since the biological parents has consented to the adoption.

The delay to file the present application is only due to an administrative decision from the DYP and which has no link with the Applicant-adopters. [ 9 ] The evidence convince the Court that the Applicant-adopters have all the necessary qualities required in order to exercise parental authority. [ 10 ] The Applicant-adopters ask the Court to reduce the placement period to three (3) months, considering that they have been keeping the child since she was born. [ 11 ] The present application is in the child’s best interest and respects her rights. [ 12 ] The present application is well founded in facts and in law.

FOR THE ABOVE MOTIVES, THE COURT: [ 13 ] GRANTS this application; [ 14 ] ORDERS the placement of the child with the Applicant-adopters; [ 15 ] ACKNOWLEDGES that it is of the intention of the Applicant that during the placement period, the child is known as: X; [ 16 ] REDUCES the placement period from six (6) months to three (3) months;

[ 17 ] ENTRUSTS the Applicant-Adopters with parental authority during the placement period. __________________________________ PEGGY WAROLIN , J.C.Q. Me Adèle Cyr, attorney for the Director of Youth Protection Me Cassandra Neptune, attorney for the child Date of hearing: May 28, 2021