Puerto Rico
Privacy of hearings and documents
All hearings with regard to cases of adoption and waiver of patria potestas, and of transference of custody, shall be held at the office of the judge with the intervention of the prosecuting attorney. The presence of any persons other than the Court officials, the adopting parties, the adopted, the parents, when their presene be indispensable, witnesses, counsellors, and representative of the Public Welfare dependency in the discharge of their official functions with regard to the adoption, is hereby forbidden. All documents relating to the adoption and filed with the corresponding Court, as well as the judgment and orders of the Court, shall not be subject to inspection by any person whatsoever, with the excepttion of the parties to the action and their counsel, and the Public Welfare Division. The Court may, through a written order issued for just cause, permit other persons to inspect the said documents.
(Code Civil Proc., 1933 sec. 613D, added June 15, 1953, No. 85, p. 298, sec. 2, eff. 90 days after June 15, 1953.)
P.R. STAT. ANN. tit. 32, sec. 2698
Updated January 2, 2019
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