(Birmingham News) The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday refused to recognize an adoption by a lesbian mother of her three children granted by a Georgia court in 2007. The children now live in Jefferson County.
A lesbian rights group, which represented the mother who adopted the children, decried the ruling.
"The Alabama Supreme Court's refusal to recognize an adoption granted eight years ago harms not only these children, but all children with adoptive parents," Cathy Sakimura Family Law Director for The National Center for Lesbian Rights. "Children who are adopted must be able to count on their adoptions being final—allowing an adoption to be found invalid years later because there may have been a legal error in the adoption puts all adopted children at risk of losing their forever families."