PER CURIAM.
The question presented is whether the doctrine of virtual adoption is applicable to a promise to adopt an adult. The trial court answered the question in the negative. We affirm.
Virtual adoption is an equitable doctrine designed to protect the interests of a person who was supposed to have been adopted as a child but whose adoptive parents failed to undertake the legal steps necessary to formally accomplish the adoption. See Sheffield v. Barry...
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