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The adoption of legal age persons did not have greater requirements than the legal limitations to proceed with the declaration of parentage by adoption. Subsequently, Law 61 of August 12, 2008, known as the General Law of Adoptions of the Republic of Panama, was created, limiting the term for adoptions of legal age persons to a minimum of two (2) years, after the adoptee reaches the age of majority. Then, the law was reformed, being substituted, in some articles, by Law 46 of July 17, 2013, which in its article 128, numeral 4, provided the time limit of two (2) years to request an adoption of an adult. Currently, by a decision of July 7, 2023, the Plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice declared that numeral 4 of article 128 of the General Law of Adoptions was unconstitutional.
