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How will the court approach step-parent adoptions?

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Published on: 02 September 2014

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Original news
What were the key features of this case?
How does the judgment inform our understanding of step-parent adoption?
What are the challenges for step-parents seeking to adopt?
How does adoption change the legal relationship between the children and the adoptive step-parent?
How did the decision in Re B (a child) (care order: proportionality: criterion for review) inform the court?
What should lawyers take from this case?

Article summary

Family analysis: What are the challenges for step-parents seeking to adopt? Jemma Dally, partner and head of the adoption and international child care department at Goodman Ray, answers this and other questions in the context of the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Re P.

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