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Alabama Supreme Court says state doesn't have to recognize lesbian adoption from Georgia
Al.com reports: The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday refused to recognize an adoption by a lesbian mother of her three children granted by a Georgia court in 2007. The children now live in Jefferson County. A lesbian rights group, which represented the mother who adopted the children, decried the ruling. "The Alabama Supreme Court's refusal to recognize an adoption granted eight years ago harms not only these children, but all children with adoptive parents," Cathy Sakimura Family Law Director for The National Center for Lesbian Rights. "Children who are adopted must be able to count on their adoptions being final—allowing an adoption to be found invalid years later because there may have been a legal error in the adoption puts all adopted children at risk of losing their forever families." The case before the Alabama Supreme Court involves two women, identified only as E.L. v. V.L. in court documents. The women had been in a long term relationship and had three children through artificial insemination. The non-biological mother, V.L., adopted the children in Georgia. The biological mother participated in that process and consented in to the adoptions. When the parents later broke up, the biological mother, E.L., kept V.L. from seeing the children, according to V.L.'s attorneys. V.L. sought visitation in Alabama, where the family lives. E.L. opposed her request, arguing that the Georgia adoption was invalid in Alabama. The case was first appealed to the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals. That court ruled in October 2014 that the Jefferson County judge had erred when he granted V.L. visitation rights. But then that appeals court reversed itself in February. The case was then appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court. The Alabama Supreme Court found in Friday's ruling that Alabama did not have to recognize adoption by the woman – V.L. – of her partner's biological children because it found the Georgia court didn't properly apply Georgia law...
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