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Maine Supreme Court Upholds Adoption of Adult Partner

By Barbara Glesner Fines, Robert E. Oliphant, and Nancy Ver Steegh (William Mitchell College of Law).

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Last week, in a long-running inheritance dispute, the Maine Supreme Court ruled that an adult adoption of a same-sex partner was legitimate. The dispute mostly surrounded a very large trust set up by one of the founders of IBM for...

Full post as published by Family Law Prof Blog on July 27, 2009 (boomark / email).

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