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Petitioner Santos spouses seek to adopt the 4-year uncertainty. Article 185 thereof now expresses the necessity for
old sickly brother of the wife. It was established that the joint adoption by the spouses except in only two instances: (1)
petitioners are both 32 years of age and have maintained a When one spouse seeks to adopt his own legitimate child; or
conjugal home of their own. They do not have a child of their (2) When one spouse seeks to adopt the legitimate child of the
own blood nor has any one of them been convicted of a crime other.
involving moral turpitude. Luis E. Santos, Jr., is a lawyer, with It is in the foregoing cases when Article 186 of the
business interests in a textile development enterprise and the Code, on the subject of parental authority, can aptly find
IBA electric plant, and is the general manager of Medry Inc. governance. Article 186. In case husband and wife jointly adopt
and the secretary-treasurer of Bearen Enterprises. His co- or one spouse adopts the legitimate child of the other, joint
petitioner-wife is a nurse by profession. The parents of the parental authority shall be exercised by the spouses in
child testified that they entrusted him to the petitioners who accordance with this Code.
reared and brought him up.