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Adoption activist arrested for illegal re-entry
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested Robin Neal Whiteley on a felony illegal re-entry charge over the weekend.
Court records filed in his case show 35-year-old Whiteley was caught near Hidalgo on February 18th.
Whiteley’s case has been profiled in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and other media outlets as an illustration of a Catch-22 between immigration and adoption [...]
Bill gives married couples adoption preference
From the East Valley Tribune:
Saying children do better in a home with a mother and a father, the state House voted Monday to give married couples preference when placing children for adoption.
HB2148 would overrule the existing practice of the Department of Economic Security that makes the “best interests of the child” [...]
Gabriel Johnson’s Family Fears Missing Baby Was Sold in Underground Adoption
Since Feb. 2, McQueary has been retracing a road trip that 8-month-old Gabriel Johnson and his mother, Elizabeth Johnson, took last December from Tempe, Ariz., to San Antonio, Texas – the last place the little boy was seen alive.
Elizabeth Johnson, 23, told a TV station she gave the child to strangers [...]
DCF lawyer: Put gay man’s kids back up for adoption
All along, everyone involved in Martin Gill’s adoption of two foster boys agreed that the best possible home for the children was with Gill and his partner.Everyone, that is, except the lawyers hired by the Department of Children and Families who asked an appeals court to reverse the adoption and “make the children available” for [...]
Charges Against N.Y. Lawyer Show Gray Areas of Adoption
From The New York Law Journal:
The couple who turned in a Roslyn, N.Y., lawyer for allegedly masterminding a multi-state adoption Ponzi scheme admitted they ignored numerous red flags along the way. But practitioners say the adoption field itself remains such a legal gray area that it tests the ethical limits of the attorneys who specialize [...]
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