The second-parent adoption or co-parent adoption is a process by which a marriage partner can adopt her or his partner's biological or adoptive child without terminating the first legal parent's rights. This issue is of significant importance in the context of the LGBT adoption.
In the United States, second-parent adoption was started by the National Center for Lesbian Rights (formerly the Lesbian Rights Project) in the mid-1980s. California (2003 ), Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts (1999), New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont (1993 ), Washington State and Washington, D.C. explicitly allow second-parent adoption by same-sex couples statewide, either by statute or court ruling. As of May 2007, Colorado allows second-parent adoption by same-sex couples. As of 2013, the Michigan law allowed second-parent adoption for married couples, while banning same-sex marriage. The latter ban was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2015.
Courts in many other states have also granted second-parent adoptions to same-sex couples, though there is no statewide law or court decision that guarantees this. In fact, courts within the same state but in different jurisdictions often contradict each other in practice.
The American Medical Association supported second parent adoption by same-sex partner, stating that lack of formal recognition can cause health-care disparities for children of same-sex parents.
The American Academy of Pediatrics supports second parent adoption.
In July 2011, The Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs of Slovenia stated that the existing law allows for second-parent adoption.
In the context of LGBT adoption and parenting in Australia, As of 2008, the best option was to apply to the Family Court of Australia for a parenting order, as 'other people significant to the care, welfare and development' of the child. It provides an important "status quo" if the birth mother were to die, preventing other family members from taking immediate custody of the child.
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See also
- Stepparent adoption
- X and Others v Austria
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References
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