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IN RE AJR

Docket No. 147522. Calendar No. 9.

852 N.W.2d 760 (2014)

496 Mich. 346

In re AJR.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 25, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott Bassett and Cynthia S. Harmon , East Lansing , for petitioner-mother and petitioner-stepfather.

Vivek S. Sankaran and Trish Oleksa Haas for respondent-father.

Yvon D. and Estela M. Roustan in propriis personis.

Rebecca Shiemke , Kent Weichmann , Ann Arbor , and Anne Argiroff , Farmington Hills, for the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan.

ZAHRA, J.

This case requires us to interpret the stepparent adoption statute, MCL 710.51(6), which allows the spouse of "the parent having legal custody of the child" to petition to adopt that child as long as the court orders the termination of the other parent's parental rights in a manner consistent with the criteria provided in MCL 710.51(6)(a) and (b). Applying the stepparent adoption statute to the instant case, the...

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