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Submitted On Briefs: February 27, 2007.
Decided: August 30, 2007.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Mary L. Bonauto, Esq., Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, Boston, MA, Judith M. Berry, Esq., Gorham, Patricia A. Peard, Esq., Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson, P.A., Portland, for appellants.
Donna A. Bailey, Esq., Moulton, Forte & Bailey, P.A., Wells, Guardian ad Litem.
G. Steven Rowe, Attorney General, Gregg D. Bernstein, Asst. Atty. Gen., Janice S. Stuver, Asst. Atty. Gen., Matthew Pollack, Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, (for State of Maine Office of the Attorney General), Michael P. Asen, Esq., Mittel Asen LLC, Portland, Of counsel: Paul H. Smith, Esq., William M. Hohengarten, Esq., Eric Berger, Esq., Jenner & Block LLP, Nathalie F.P. Golfoyle, Esq., American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C., (for American Psychological Association, Maine Psychological Association, National Association of Social Workers and its Maine Chapter; Maine Association of Psychiatric Physicians, Child Welfare League of America, Maine Children's Alliance, Maine Medical Association American Academy of Pediatrics Maine Chapter, Even B. Donaldson Adoption Inst., Kids First, and Community Counseling Center), for amici curiae.
Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and CLIFFORD, ALEXANDER, CALKINS, LEVY, SILVER, and MEAD, JJ.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.
LEVY, J.
[¶ 1] A.C. and M.K. appeal from the judgment of the Cumberland County Probate Court (Mazziotti, J.) dismissing their joint petitions for adoption and name change as to their foster children, M.A. and R.A.1 A.C. and M.K. contend that the court erred in concluding that it lacks jurisdiction, pursuant to 18-A M.R.S. § 9-301 (2006), to consider joint petitions for adoption filed by two unmarried individuals. Because...
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