Section 12, The Adoption Act, 1989 Short title

(1)Upon an adoption order being made – Right and Duties of (a) all rights, duties obligations and liabilities including any arising parent and under customary law and practice of the parents of juvenile, or of other person any other person in relation to the future custody, maintenance and education of the juvenile (including all rights to appoint a guardian and to consent or give notice of dissent to marriage) shall be extinguished; and (b) there shall vest in and be exercisable by and enforceable against, the adopter all such rights, duties, obligation and liabilities in relation to the future custody , maintenance and education of the juvenile as would vest in him if the juvenile were a child born to the adopter in lawful marriage . (2) In respect of custody, maintenance and education, the juvenile shall stand to the adopter exclusively in the position of a child born to the adopter in lawful marriage. (3) In a case where a husband and his wife are the adopters , they shall in respect of the custody , maintenance and education of the juvenile, and for the purpose of the jurisdiction of any Court to make orders as to the custody and maintenance of and rights of access to the juvenile, stand to each other and to the juvenile in the same relation as they would have stood if they had been the lawful father and mother of the juvenile and the juvenile shall stand to them respectively in the same relation as a lawful father and mother respectively . Appeals Act No 31 of 1965 No.9 Adoption 1989, Intestacies Construction of settlements and wills PART II -DEVOLUTION OF PROPERTY