The procedure of adoption in Cameroon is recorded in sections 343 to 370 of the Civil Code and in sections 41 of Ordinance N° 82/02 of June 29, 1981 organising Civil Status Registration in Cameroon, modified on May 6, 2011.
In principle adoption process in allowed to all persons of either sex who shall have attained atleast 45 years of age or more. Any natural person can be adopted irrespective of their sex, race or primogeniture. However, the natural perent (s) of the adopted child, if still alive must freely manifest their consent (s) in the affirmative to the adoption.