Bluemly v. Little

STEAGALL, Justice.

Three years before her death in 1992, Lillian C. McGowin adopted Joe H. Little, Jr., Dorothy Little Mosley, and L.G. Adams, Jr., pursuant to Ala.Code 1975, § 43-4-1 (repealed, effective January 1,1991). That statute allowed an adult to adopt another adult for inheritance purposes. Little is a grandnephew of McGowin, Mosley is a grandniece of McGowin, and Adams is a nephew of McGowin. Sadie Mae Bluemly is a niece of McGowin; after McGowin’s death, Bluemly sued Little, Mosley, and Adams, seeking, among other things, a judgment declaring the adoptions by McGowin void as being…