Catching up: 3-Party Adoptions, SIPP, and my reading list for this weekend

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2 responses to “Catching up: 3-Party Adoptions, SIPP, and my reading list for this weekend”

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   Denise

   February 8, 2013

   I have been trying to wrap my head around all of the stories I have heard about a second parent adoption ( not step parent since sometimes I have heard there is no marriage). Now this. I don’t get how the adoption statute authorizes this. I’m not commenting on whether our law should allow alternative family adoptions. But does the law really currently support this? Or are they creating a void or voidable judgment that is subject to attack when one of the parties no longer like the arrangement.

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   Robert

   February 11, 2013

   I haven’t personally handled any of these, but I’ve been repeatedly assured that judges find the legal reasoning underlying them to be sound. Even if the judgments were legally shaky, there is a 1-year statute of repose for adoptions in FSA 63.182(1). After that year, the adoptions are final no matter what. Interestingly, FSA 63.182(2)(a) severely limits standing to challenge an adoption, which means that it’s unlikely that any interest groups could wedge their way in.

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