P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 1069
The father, mother, or any such person who holds the parental rights over a minor may voluntarily surrender to the Department or the adoption agency the custody of such minor so that he/she may be placed for adoption, after having relinquished his/her parental rights to the minor. Such waiver shall be recorded on a document under oath before a notary public in the presence of a witness, attesting to the fact that he/she is relinquishing his/her parental rights and that he/she agrees to have the minor placed for adoption. Such relinquishment may be rendered ineffective within fifteen (15) days following the date the document was executed. It shall be presumed that the father, mother or person who holds parental rights over the minors and who has surrendered the same to the Department of the Family or the adoption agency in accordance with this section has been duly oriented by the Department personnel as to having the knowledge, capacity and that nothing prevented him/her from doing so. It shall also be presumed that in said surrender there was no impediment with respect to the consent and that the same was done watching over the best interest of the minor.
History —Dec. 18, 2009, No. 186, § 20, eff. 30 days after Dec. 18, 2009; Dec. 16, 2011, No. 247, § 6.