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ADOPTION OF A MINOR

SJC-11797.

471 Mass. 373 (2015)

29 N.E.3d 830

ADOPTION OF A MINOR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 7, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patience Crozier for the petitioners.

Kari Hong , of California, & Mary L. Bonauto & Vickie Henry, for American Academy of Adoption Attorneys & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: GANTS, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, DUFFLY, LENK, & HINES, JJ.

The petitioners, J.S. and V.K, a married same-sex couple, filed a joint petition for adoption in the Probate and Family Court, seeking to adopt their son Nicholas.1 Nicholas was born to J.S. in 2014, during the petitioners' marriage. He was conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF),2...

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