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The Civil Code 2074 sec 73. Voidable marriage: (1) If a marriage is
concluded in any of the following circumstances and any person who
concludes such a marriage does not accept it, the person may get
such a marriage voided:
If the marriage has been concluded, or caused to be concluded, by
way of misrepresentation
If a marriage is concluded under the sec 71, such marriage is also
voidable
• One who has contracted human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or Hepatitis 'B'
or similar other incurable severe disease,
• One who has already been proved to have no sexual organ, to be impotent or
to have no reproductive capability,
• One who is dumb or has lost hearing capacity, being fully blind or is suffering
from leprosy
• One who is of unsound mind,
• One who is already a married,
• One who is a pregnant,
• One who has been convicted of a criminal offense involving moral turpitude
by a court and sentenced for the same.
A marriage shall be void only with the consent of the woman if she is
pregnant or has delivered a baby as the consequence of the marriage
6.4: Termination of Marriage
Domestic Adoption
Inter-Country Adoption
PROVISIONS OF Civil Code RELATING ADOPTION
Section 172 of NCC (a) A couple to whom no child has born even up
to ten years of the marriage
(b) An unmarried woman having completed forty-five
forty years of age, a
widow, divorcee woman or judicially separated woman, having no son
or daughter
(c) An unmarried man having completed forty-five
forty years of age, a
widower, divorcee or judicially separated man, having no son or
daughter.
Who can not adopt a child in Nepal?