Adoption of T.A.M. ex rel. J.M.J. v. L.A.M.

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. The natural mother years later met and married a man and moved the district court to vacate the adoptions, contending that fraud infected the…