Internet Adoption of Twins Is Voided
A judge nullified the adoption of twin 8-month-old girls caught up in an international custody battle.
The girls were adopted in Arkansas on Dec. 22 by a British couple, setting off a dispute with a U.S. couple who also tried to adopt them through the same Internet broker.
Pulaski County Probate Judge Mackie Pierce said that neither the British couple nor the American birth mother, who put them up for adoption, met Arkansas’ 30-day residency requirement. As a result, the Arkansas courts had no right to grant the adoption, Pierce said.
Pierce also recommended to British courts that the girls, in foster care there, be returned to the U.S. for further proceedings.
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