Janet Janghahr’s Florida Divorce Law Blog: reports: “An adoption agency notified a biological father that his baby was going to be adopted. That was how the biological father allegedly first learned of the child’s existence. By that time, the baby was two months old and had been living since he was three days old with...Read More
A Kentucky State Government press release sent after the first meeting of the committee studying “quick trigger” adoptions announces it will meet monthly and possibly recommend legislation in 2007. It is good news that the 12 member panel will personally be headed by The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Cabinet Secretary Mark D....Read More
Same-sex adoptions are legal in Indiana, as Indiana Supreme Court declines to review an Indiana Court of Appeals decision. The Indiana Law Blog has an extensive report on the issue. Comment: In Kentucky we are reduced to encouraging our “brain drain” by advising clients to move across the river.Read More
The first meeting of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services’ panel on adoption is scheduled for next week. The meeting will be from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 7, in the music room of the Berry Hill Mansion, 700 Louisville Road, Frankfort, KY. The meeting is open to the public. The...Read More
Death of Biological Parent Severs Step-parent/Step-child Relationship for Purposes of Alabama Adoption Statute, Hays v. Hays, 2006 Ala. Civ. App. LEXIS 352 (June 23, 2006), digested by the Family Law Prof Blog.Read More
The KentuckyLawBlog reports today that the state will hold hearings on children hastily removed from biological parents to facilitate “quick trigger” adoptions. The post links to a Lexington Herald-Leader story. The hearings in the legislature will begin June 21, 2006 at 1 p.m.Read More
The Indiana Law Blog posts thoughtful excerpts from an editorial in today’s Fort Wayne News Sentinel concerning adoption by same sex couples. The Indiana Law Blog also reports today that the Indiana Supreme Court has been asked to review a decision permitting joint adoption by an unmarried couple, citing conflicting lower court rulingsRead More
C.M.C. and C.L.C. v. A.L.W.; P.L.S.; and B.R.C.S.,a Minor; S.A.S. and T.L.S. v. A.L.W.; P.L.S.; and M.P.W., a Minor; S.A.S. and T.L.S. v. A.L.W.; P.L.S.; and A.L.W. II, a Minor, 180 SW3d 485 (Ky., App., 2005) Adoption without the consent of living biological parent is by its very nature a proceeding seeking the termination of...Read More
