(1) If an adoption order is made in respect of an infant who is illegitimate, subject to this section, an affiliation order or decree of affiliation and aliment in force with respect to the infant and an agreement by which the father of the infant has undertaken to make payments specifically for the benefit of the infant, shall cease to have effect, but without prejudice to the recovery of any arrears which are due under the order, decree or agreement at the date of the adoption order.
(2) If an infant to whom an order, a decree or an agreement under subsection (1) relates is adopted by his or her mother, and the mother is a single woman, the order, decree or agreement does not cease to have effect under subsection (1) on the making of the adoption order, but ceases to have effect if she subsequently marries.
(Inserted by Act 20 of 2019)