Section 185: Voidable adoption

1) If an adoptive person fails to fulfil the obligations referred to in Section 181, any adopted son or daughter may have the adoption annulled.

Provided that if such adopted son or daughter has already received a partition share, he or she shall not be entitled to have the adoption annulled.

2) An adoptive person may have the adoption annulled in any of the following circumstances:

(a) If the adopted son or daughter fails to fulfil the obligations referred to in Section 182,

(b) If the adopted son or daughter expels him or her from home or subjects him or her to physical or mental torture, from time to time,

(c) If the adopted son or daughter misuses his or her property,

(d) If the adopted son or daughter leaves him or her and lives separately without his or her consent for three years or more.

3) The provisions of clauses (a) and (d) of sub-section (2) shall not apply to the married adopted daughter.