Who may not be Adopters?

Persons Who Cannot Be Adoptive Parents:

1. Persons with Capacity Limitations:

• Those recognized as legally incapacitated or restricted in their legal capacity.

2. Persons Deprived of Parental Rights:

• If parental rights have not been reinstated.

3. Persons with Issues in Previous Forms of Guardianship or Adoption:

• If they were previously adoptive parents, guardians, caregivers, or foster parents, but their adoption, guardianship, or family activity was terminated due to their fault.

4. Persons Undergoing Treatment or on Record:

• Those undergoing treatment or registered with a psychiatric or narcological dispensary.

5. Persons with Addictions:

• Those abusing alcohol or narcotic substances.

6. Persons Who Do Not Provide Adequate Living Conditions:

• Those without permanent housing or stable income.

7. Persons with Diseases that Exclude Adoption:

• A list of such diseases is defined by legislation (e.g., severe mental or infectious diseases).

8. Foreigners:

• Foreign nationals who are not married (except in cases where the foreigner is a relative of the child).

9. Persons with Criminal Convictions:

• Those convicted of crimes against life, health, sexual freedom, safety, or public order, or who have unresolved or unremoved convictions for other crimes, including those defined under Articles 148, 150, 150-1, 164, 166, 167, 169, 181, 187, 324, and 442 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

10. Persons with Health Problems:

• Those requiring constant external care.

11. Stateless Persons.

12. Persons Married to Someone Who Cannot Be an Adoptive Parent.

13. Persons Whose Interests Conflict with the Interests of the Child.