2017 Delaware Code
Title 13 - Domestic Relations
CHAPTER 9. ADOPTION
Subchapter I Minors
§ 903. Persons eligible to petition to adopt.

An unmarried person or a husband and wife jointly, who are not legally separated or who are not living apart from each other, or a divorced or legally separated person, being a resident of the State at the time of filing the petition or with whom a child has been placed for adoption under § 904 of this title, and being over 21 years of age, may petition the Family Court for an order authorizing the petitioner or petitioners to adopt a child not his, hers or theirs. Nothing herein shall in any way affect the right of any person to adopt a person who has reached age 18 as provided in subchapter II of this chapter.

Code 1935, § 3551; 41 Del. Laws, c. 187, § 1; 48 Del. Laws, c. 134, § 2; 13 Del. C. 1953, § 903; 49 Del. Laws, c. 385; 57 Del. Laws, c. 402, § 2; 59 Del. Laws, c. 466, § 3; 62 Del. Laws, c. 402, § 1; 68 Del. Laws, c. 259, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;