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Raising a child for 20 years, only to hear ‘He’s not your kid’: From bringing the baby home at one month, feeding him, changing diapers, teaching him to use chopsticks during New Year, and raising him for nearly 20 years, why did the court still refuse to recognize this parent-child bond in the PEN vs. KAL case? How did the High Court use two main reasons to declare a loving foster relationship as ‘legally unadoptable’?

Mr. and Mrs. Peng adopted an abandoned baby in 2001 and, for convenience, directly registered themselves as the ‘biological parents.’ Twelve years later, when the child applied for a MyKad, the truth came out, and they had to go through the official adoption process to make it right. Legal clash: The High Court once ruled in favor of the parents, so why did the Court of Appeal overturn the original verdict and rule against them? The Constitution only recognizes bloodlines: Why can’t a legal adoption order restore the child’s citizenship?

A perfect 9-year family fell apart because of a piece of paper: Foster parents brought their niece, born in China, to Penang and raised her for 9 years. The welfare department’s report had zero flaws, so why did the local court still reject the adoption application? The legal trap: Section 25A of the 1952 Adoption Act requires ‘replacing’ the birth certificate, but the child was born in China — the procedure doesn’t work, does that mean the adoption is doomed?

Mr. H (currently around 25 years old) Born at Ipoh General Hospital in 2001, he has a Malaysian father and a Thai mother. His parents never registered their marriage; his mother left home when he was 14 months old and has not been heard from since. Throughout his childhood, he received vaccinations, attended school, obtained a Malaysian international passport at just over a year old, and even used that passport to travel to Sarawak.

Abandoned at a bus station in Pahang in 1997 (at approximately one year of age), the individual was subsequently legally adopted and raised by a local couple.The Court of Appeal recently dismissed her application to obtain Malaysian citizenship by operation of law.

Applying for an IC (MyKad) at age 12 triggered an investigation into questioned records, instantly destroying 12 years of assumed local identity. In 2001, a family took in a foreign woman’s newborn and registered false details on the birth certificate through a third party—setting up a major legal disaster.