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YP (Adoption of 18 year old) [2021] EWHC 3168 (Fam)

26th November 2021

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Private Children Law

A case in which the court examines the criteria set out in the ACA 2002 in the context of an application for an adoption by an applicant regarding a child who turned 18 the day after the application was made, was in an unconventional relationship with the birth mother and who had, ostensibly, not been living with the subject child in the six month period prior to the application being made.

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