IN RE Y.L.

No. 2017-0482.

190 A.3d 1049 (2018)

IN RE Y.L.

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Opinion Issued: July 3, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Valerie C. Raudonis , of Nashua, by brief, for the petitioner.

Gordon J. MacDonald , attorney general ( Laura E. B. Lombardi , senior assistant attorney general, on the memorandum of law), as amicus curiae.


We are asked in this case whether, under New Hampshire's adoption statute, see RSA ch. 170-B (2014 & Supp. 2017), the petitioner, J.P., an unmarried male, may become the adoptive father of Y.L., an adult female, without altering the legal parental status of Y.L.'s birth mother — as all three so desire...

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