UDHR, ICESCR are instruments which consider the rights of children
There are two kinds of adoption, Formal and Informal (customary)
Children’s Act, CI 59, Act 459 on court’s jurisdiction, Constitution, Criminal Offences Act-forced marriages,
Per Lord Comfort, where the children are already with the father no maintenance order ought be made, however where they are with the mother and regardless of the petitioner, maintenance order ought be made.