Legal Opinion
In Re the Adoption of T.K.J.
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided June 13, 1996No. 95CA0531, 95CA0532PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Judge METZGER.
Petitioners, G.K. and L.J., appeal the judgment which dismissed their petitions seeking the adoption of two children, T.K.J. and K.A.K., for lack of jurisdiction. We affirm.
Petitioners live together as same-sex domestic companions. Each is the natural mother of one of the two children who are the subject of the petition. Each petitioner sought a “co-parent” adoption decree that would, in effect, grant her the rights and duties associated with a “stepparent adoption” for the other petitioner’s child, while retaining her parental rights over her natural child.
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