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Step-parent adoption: Family ties
Lehna Gardiner outlines the statutory and procedural requirements on an application for an adoption order by a step-parent ‘The court must consider whether a child arrangements order, a parental responsibility order or a special guardianship order would be better for the child.’ Step-parents are a very common and established feature of modern family life. The …
Cases Referenced
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- Re D (Adoption: Parent’s Consent) [1977] AC 602
- Re P (A Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 1174
- Söderbäck v Sweden [1998] ECHR 103