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From WCTV: The sunshine state is number one in the nation when it comes to adopting children. That’s according to Governor Charlie Crist who says Florida has had more than 12,000 adoptions since 2007 – including over 3,000 children adopted within the past year alone. In 2009, Florida received a federal bonus of nearly ten [...]
From The Columbus Dispatch: Adoptive parents often don’t worry much about challenges from an alleged birth father who wasn’t married to the mother. If the man didn’t meet the 30-day deadline for signing the state’s putative-father registry, offer support during the pregnancy or establish paternity before the adoption was filed, he might have little chance [...]
From the Salt Lake City Weekly: In most states, putative fathers have certain requirements they must meet to stop an adoption, but many local and national experts agree that Utah is one of the toughest—if not the toughest—state for unmarried fathers to stop an adoption. Presiding judge of the Utah Court of Appeals James Davis [...]
From The Times Leader: Luzerne County Children and Youth Services has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit filed by an Edwardsville man who claims the agency allowed his son to be adopted without notifying him of the proceeding. The settlement reached Wednesday with George Bartleson comes less than a week after a jury awarded $219,000 [...]