Love starts, encourages and complete adoption. But not just any kind of love, but love that leads to take the risk, sacrifice, money and resources for our children; that same love that is most evident in the faces of those who have extreme needs. Love is the spirit of adoptions.

As for the legal side, we should note that the adoption in Panama is governed by Law 46 of July 17, 2013 recently adopted in our country, so our team of advisors will guide you through the Adoption process starting with necessary to start this mission, as well as accompanying him on the process itself for the improvement of the Adoption.

The adoption process in Panama is lined with a number of formalities and requirements (depending on whether national or international) by which the applicant must fill these requirements of form and substance that sets us the aforesaid Act; Adoptions are a source of civil relationship and constitute a civil state between adopted and adopter whose effects are irrevocable, considering that build ties with the adoption of affiliation.

If you are interested in making an adoption in Panama, do not hesitate about our Law Office to schedule an appointment to expose the entire procedure, requirements and costs involved it in the Republic of Panama; always bearing in mind that the best environment for the overall development of a child is in a family and it can be completed through adoption.

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In first place, we should note that in our legislation the word “food” is not restricted to the consumables but this extends to other areas such as clothing, housing, medical and dental care, recreation, education and any other input analogue that tends to cover the most pressing and immediate needs of the beneficiaries.

In that vein, we have the issue of Child Support in Panama is regulated by Law 42 of 2012, “Child Support General Act”. Among the highlights of this law we have that according to what is regulated in Articles 1 and 5 of the same points out that child support should be proportional to the patrimony or through whom is giving and as well as the needs of the receiver and the age of the beneficiaries.

In front to the aforementioned, we must indicate that for optimal physical, mental or spiritual development of some children they may require infinite financial resources. That is why we consider that the amount to be restored must be stopped, as far as the reaching economic possibilities of the obliged get, in this way the harmony between the nutritional needs of the children would be guaranteed, with the economic patrimony of who has to meet them.

In SPECIALISTS IN FAMILY LAW, we fully understand the significance and importance of child support, which is why we strive to offer comprehensive advice to our clients by providing a real and accurate analysis of the case as well as the possibilities of the claim applicant. Likewise, we offer multidisciplinary technical advice to obtain verification of facts or data that constitute the alleged de facto standards that are favorable to our clients.

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To inform the authorities of cases of domestic violence is the responsibility of all of us in the community and we must do it so as soon as we have knowledge of it. In that sense, the court proceedings when there are acts of domestic violence, ex – officio, that is to say that the authority carried out by order of the Law; however, in these cases it is always advisable to at least have the assessment of a lawyer to ensure the maximum respect for the rights of both the victim and the alleged aggressor.

The Law 38 of 2001 in Panama is in the frame of application of the law to orient in which cases we can  implement this Law, including Marriages, de Facto Unions, couples relationships that have not yet five years old, whose permanence intentions can be accredited, consanguinity, affinity or adoption, sons to daughters  under age uncommon who live or not within the family, persons who have procreated between them a son or daughter and also apply to the situations described in the preceding paragraphs, even if they have completed at the time of the assault.

The law aims to protect the various manifestations of domestic violence and child, girl and adolescents abuse, and all persons connected with the situations described in this Act, according to the Constitution, the Family Code and the treaties and international conventions to which the Republic of Panama is a signatory. Defines the terms on which the law is based to better understanding of the reader.

The Act also provides Protection measures that the authority has the power to execute when it becomes aware of the fact, without prejudice to start or continue the respective civil, criminal, family or administrative process such as: authorize the surviving victim, if upon request, to temporarily settle in a different address common to protect it from future attacks, respecting confidentiality address. Forbid the introduction of weapons or to keep weapons in the shared home, as well as to seize them to ensure they are not used to intimidate, threaten or harm. Forbid the alleged perpetrator or the alleged aggressor to approach the shared home or where the surviving victim is,  also the workplace, study or other commonly frequented by her, among others.

In this vein, the Act also gives power to the corresponding authority to apply protective measures that are not of his competency, making the request to the empowered authority for it to implement the suggested measures or to consider other relevant, in a seventy-two hours period. It also establishes the duration of 6 months maximum applicability for protective measures notwithstanding that they may be extended while the process lasts. The disobedience by the perpetrator of the protection measure results in a sanction for contempt.

The officials of the administrative police, the traditional authorities in indigenous areas (in a supplementary way to their traditions), the Prosecutors agents and the authorities of the Judicial organ, each one according to their jurisdiction, are the ones entitled by Law to implement the protective measures.

In addition, to the aforementioned authorities, the magistrates and the night judges must, provisionally, take cognizance of the fact and apply the appropriate protective measures without actually decide on the merits of the case and shall refer the case to the competent authority within a period not exceeding seventy-two hours, counted from the time the measure referred to applies.

According to the Act the protection measures can be applied ex- officio or at the request of the interested party, verbally or in written and states that the protective measures against the remedies established by law, according to the relevant competition authorities.

If you are a victim of domestic violence, in SPECIALISTS IN FAMILY LAW, offer you a comprehensive advice, with a special 24 hour treatment applicable to these cases; so we recommend you to contact our office to schedule an attention as soon as possible.

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In SPECIALISTS IN FAMILY LAW, we have the necessary experience to ensure that the Divorce process in Panama is as bearable as possible; this in view we realize that more than a termination of a marriage, Divorce represents a stage of much emotional stress, it brings many contradictions in a person, so before proceeding to file for Divorce, we always recommend an analysis and case assessment by experts in relationships, in order to determine whether or not the need for a process of this type.

In that sense, we also understand that there are cases where we are in the presence of irreconcilable differences between the spouses, so the marriage is not justified, in these cases where we always recommend trying to reconcile positions and set aside to undergo conflict a process of non-contentious divorce, that is to say that a divorce in Panama by mutual consent, is faster, cheaper and less traumatic for all the parties and to the children born in wedlock.

(Image)But ultimately, if we do not reach to an agreement, it is necessary to guide and advise our clients to a divorce inPanama for grounds “conflictive” that is to say a divorce where it is necessary to sue the other party and prove the facts on which the claim is based, to obtain the dissolution of the marriage and in some cases the guilt or innocence of a spouse, then proceed respectively in a process of liquidation of the marriage economic system.

In this regard, it is noted that in our legislation the grounds for a divorce in Panama are unequivocally set out in the Family Code; reason by which for each particular case, it is necessary to make a detailed examination of the case in order to establish from the beginning to what ground or grounds we are, and what is the probative material that it has, since we must always remember that who alleges facts is that shall have the burden of proof in the process, so we advise our constituents to bring in judgment the elements of evidence tending to show the statements in the lawsuit.

Divorce Act in Panama:

According to Law No. 3 of May 17, 1994, are grounds for divorce in Panama the following:

1. The attack of one spouse against the other’s life, or their sons, daughters, stepsons or stepdaughters;
2. The cruel physical or psychic  behavior that makes impossible the peace and domestic tranquility;
3. Extramarital sex;
4. The proposal of one spouse to prostitute the other;
5. The outbreak of the husband or wife to corrupt or prostitute their sons, daughters, stepsons or stepdaughters, or the complicity in their corruption or prostitution;
6. The absolute abandonment by the husband of his duties as a husband or father, and by the woman, her duties as wife or mother, if at the filing for divorce it have been at least six (6) months, counted from the day the causal, except in the case of abandonment of pregnant women, in which case, the term shall be three (3) months;
7. The habitual and unjustified use drugs or psychotropic substances;
8. Habitual drunkenness;
9. De facto separation for more than two (2) years, even if they live under the same roof;
10. Mutual consent of the spouses if the following conditions are met:
    1. That the spouses are bearing of age;

1. That marriage is at least two years of celebrated; and

1. The parties reaffirm their request for divorce two months after filing for divorce and before six (6) months of that presentation.

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