Adoption is a legal process that ceases the rights and duties of birth parents in caring for a child, and transfers them to adoptive parents. 

The Court will instruct applicants to seek consent from the Director-General of Social Welfare (DGSW) from MSF to act as Guardian-In-Adoption (GIA) for the child during the adoption process. The GIA has the duty of safeguarding the interest of the child before the Court and would conduct the n​ecessary social investigations into t​he circumstances of the adoption application before submitting an affidavit to the Court. The Family Justice Courts will make the final decision on the adoption application, taking into account the child's welfare.