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IN RE ADOPTION OF T.A.M.

No. A10-736.

791 N.W.2d 573 (2010)

In re ADOPTION OF T.A.M. and E.J.M. by J.M.J. and L.A.M. and J.M.J., n/k/a J.J.T., petitioner, Appellant, v. L.A.M., Respondent, Ramsey County Child Support, Intervenor.

Court of Appeals of Minnesota.

December 14, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan M. Hansen , North St. Paul, MN, for appellant J.M.J.

Dana K. McKenzie , Suzanne M. Born , Assisted Reproduction & Adoption Law, PLLC, Golden Valley, MN, for respondent.

Considered and decided by JOHNSON, Chief Judge; MINGE, Judge; and ROSS, Judge.

OPINION

ROSS, Judge.

The two legal issues in this same-sex adoption appeal arise from an evolving relationship between two women, two men, and two little girls. The women were involved in a lesbian relationship when one of them arranged to conceive a child with a male friend. They conceived twin girls whom they planned to be adopted by the woman's same-sex partner as the girls' "second parent." Soon after the birth and adoptions, the two women separated...

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