Limbaugh v. Woodall

The majority opinion ably expounds the law applicable to1 this situation; there is little that could be added. A virtual adoption is not a legal adoption. It creates no legal rights, but simply enforces contract rights in equity. “[U]nder a virtual adoption, no relationship of parent and child is created, but it is only a court-given name to a status arising from and created by contract. . .” Foster v. Cheek, 212 Ga. 821, 827 (96 SE2d 545). “Counsel for the plaintiff has cited no case to this court, and we have found none, where an adopted child, under [the virtual adoption *643statute], has been…