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Dear Client!

An adoption can be done only for the minor child only. An 18 year and above person cannot be adopted.

You can take care of the child aged 18 years. But cannot adopt.

Hope this resolves your query.

Since all the documents are containing there names as your parents so no one can challenge the same since no one should possess any other crucial documents since all the identifying documents of yours have their names.

Dear client,
As per HIndu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, Sec 15, No adoption which has been validly made can be cancelled by the adoptive father or mother or any other person, nor can be adopted child renounce his or her status as such and return to the family of his or her birth. So, valid adoption which is registered cannot be cancelled.

Dear client,
The magistrate should give the opposite party to defend the suit of partition. He cannot pass ordes without hearing from both sides. But he does not need any consent to pass the decree.

Dear Client,

Adoption once completed following the due process of law then it cannot be cancelled by anybody neither the adoptive parent nor the adopted child as per the Section 15 of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956.

Section 15 in The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956
15. Valid adoption not to be cancelled.—No adoption which has been validly made can be cancelled by the adoptive father or mother or any other person, nor can the adopted child renounce his or her status as

Dear Client
Post 2017 the Government of India has made it mandatory to adopt all children through CARA and follow the rule and the formalities. When you adopt through CARA then you follow the rules as the Juvenile Justice Act.
Still adoption under Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act has not been brought under the CARA's umbrella and one can adopt under HAMA through a registered deed

A spinster or a divorcee or a widow, irrespective of her marital status, can also adopt a child for herself. A girl child can also be adopted. But the only point for concern is that in the presence of boy or a girl, the adopter cannot adopt another male child or a female child.

Dear client,
A child of a relative (a relative means the child's paternal uncle or aunt, a maternal uncle or aunt or
paternal and maternal grandparents)can be adopted ,as she is your sister she is eligible to adopt your child irrespective of the gender of the child.
Thank you.

In my humble suggestion, yes it is possible for you to do so provided you have the consent of your wife.

Dear client, in my humble opinion the answer is yes
You can definitely adopt her as your daughter after following the legal procedure.