L’adozione di maggiorenni e la Corte costituzionale

[Autom. eng. transl.] The note, in commenting on the sentence of the Constitutional Court (20 July 2004, n. 245) which declared the constitutional illegitimacy of the art. 291 cod. civ. in the part in which it does not provide that the adoption of adults cannot be pronounced in the presence of natural children, recognized by the adopter, minors or, if adults, not consenting, aims to make a complete rethinking of the institution of the adoption of adults , which as a means of perpetuating the family name and remedying the lack of descent finds it hard to acquire a functionally new identity, such as that of legal transfusion of new emotional ties or of assistance to the adopter.