According to the Family Law, adoption is defined as a special form of family-legal care and protection of a child without adequate parental care, which creates a lasting relationship between the parents and the child. Adoption creates an inseparable relationship of kinship between the adopter and his relatives on the one hand, and the adoptee and his descendants on the other, and all the rights and duties that arise from that. An adopter can be a person at least twenty-one years of age who is at least 18 years older than the adoptee. If there are particularly justified reasons, the adopter may also be a person under the age of twenty-one, who is at least eighteen years older than the adoptee. Adoption requires the consent of the child's parents, unless otherwise provided by law. If the child has reached the age of twelve, his consent is required to establish adoption. Based on the submitted request, the Social Welfare Center will determine whether the spouses or extramarital partners or the person wishing to adopt meet the legal preconditions and assess their suitability and suitability for adoption. After issuing an opinion on the suitability and suitability for adoption, potential adopters are entered in the register of potential adopters and the data from the register are visible to all centers in the Republic of Croatia. The adoption procedure is led and initiated ex officio by the social welfare center responsible for the child's place of residence or stay. The Center for Social Welfare keeps case files and a register of adoption cases. Adoption information is an official secret. The Center for Social Welfare will allow a minor adoptee to inspect the files of the adoption case, and the registrar will allow access to the register of born adoptees, if the Center for Social Welfare determines that access to the files in adoption or the register of births is in his interest.