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Adoption
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Family Law Prof Blog
Case Law Development: Can Delays Caused by Child Protective System Provide Basis for Adoption Outcome?
By Family Law
Justices of the California Court of Appeals disagreed over the effect of a two-year delay in terminating a mother's parental rights and in preventing the child's transfer to Florida to…
Family Law Prof Blog
Man Who Alleged He was Denied Adoption Because of Obesity Prevails
By Family Law
A Jackson County Missouri judge has given custody of adoptive Baby Max to a man who claimed that his obesity was the reason he had been denied custody previously in…
Pennsylvania Family Law
WHEN YOU REALLY WANT TO HAVE A CHILD
The urge to have children is very strong for many people, whether couples or singles. The urge is not restricted to people in a committed relationship or couples of different…
Family Law Prof Blog
Report on Opening Records for Adult Adoptees
By Family Law
"FOR THE RECORDS: RESTORING A RIGHT TO ADULT ADOPTEESAuthor: Madelyn FreundlichPublished: 2007 November. New York NY: Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute""Among the findings in the report, "For the Records: Restoring…
Virginia Family Law Journal
National Adoption Day To Be Celebrated on November 17, 2007
By Rob Hagy
National Adoption Day is a collective national effort to raise awareness of the 114,000 children in foster care waiting to find permanent, loving families. For the last eight years, National…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
The adoption vs. abortion myth
By Cory L. Richards of the Guttmacher Institute, via the LA Times:October 29, 2007Striving to find the "middle ground" on abortion -- that is, coming up with ways acceptable to…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
September 17, 2007 Discussion Draft of UPC Amendments
The September 17, 2007 discussion draft of amendments to the Uniform Probate Code are particularly focused on issues related to children born through assisted reproduction.The draft appears to provide that…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Jeffrey Parness on Paternity Interests in the Context of Safe Haven, Adoption, and Birth Record Laws
Jeffrey A. Parness has posted Safe Haven, Adoption and Birth Record Laws: Where are the Daddies?, Capital University Law Review, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2008, on SSRN. Here is the…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Equitable Adoption Analyzed
Michael J. Higdon (Lawyering Process Professor, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada) has recently posted on SSRN his article entitled When Informal Adoption Meets Intestate Succession: The…
Family Law Prof Blog
Case Law Development: Tenth Circuit Holds that Oklahoma Must Recognize Same Sex Adoptions of Other States
By Family Law
The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has upheld a district court judgment that a state law barring recognition of adoptions by same-sex couples already finalized in…