Legal Opinion
In Re the Adoption of Baby Boy A
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided May 4, 2010No. 106,074PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TAYLOR, V.C.J.
¶ 1 In this appeal, the appellant is the Oklahoma County Public Defender in his capacity as the attorney for the minor child and the appellees are the adoptive parents. The dispositive question is whether the district court abused its discretion in approving the adoptive parents’ expenditures for fees, costs, and expenses in connection with the adoption. We answer in the affirmative and remand this cause to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
I. The Proceedings
¶2 In this private adoption, the adoptive parents paid a total of $147,289.42 for…
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