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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2003/schedule-3/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2003/75",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Prospective Adopter(s)\n(a) name, date and place of birth and address;\n(b) domicile;\n(c) relationship (if any) to the child;\n(d) marital status, date and place of marriage (if any) and comments on stability of relationship;\n(e) details of any previous marriage;\n(f) if a parent and step-parent are applying, the reasons why they prefer adoption to a residence order;\n(g) if a natural parent is applying alone, the reasons for the exclusion of the other parent;\n(h) if a married person is applying alone, the reasons for this;\n(i) physical description;\n(j) personality;\n(k) religion, and whether willing to follow any wishes of the child or his parents or guardian in respect of the child’s religious and cultural upbringing;\n(l) educational attainments;\n(m) past and present occupations and interests;\n(n) particulars of the home and living conditions (and particulars of any home where the prospective adopter proposes to live with the child, if different);\n(o) details of income and comments on the living standards of the household;\n(p) details of other members of the household (including any children of the prospective adopter even if not resident in the household);\n(q) details of the parents and any brothers or sisters of the prospective adopter, with their ages or ages at death;\n(r) attitudes to the proposed adoption of such other members of the prospective adopter’s household and family as the adoption agency or, as the case may be, the Board considers appropriate;\n(s) previous experience of caring for children as step-parent, foster parent, child-minder or prospective adopter and assessment of ability in this respect, together, where appropriate, with assessment of ability in bringing up the prospective adopter’s own children;\n(t) reasons for wishing to adopt the child and extent of understanding of the nature and effect of adoption;\n(u) any hopes and expectations for the child’s future;\n(v) assessment of ability to bring up the child throughout his childhood;\n(w) details of any adoption allowance payable;\n(x) confirmation that any referees have been interviewed, with a report of their views and opinion of the weight to be placed thereon; and\n(y) any other relevant information which might assist the court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/75/schedule/3/paragraph/4",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}