Court adds requirement back to adoption statute 
The Virginia Court of Appeals has read back into the state’s adoption statute a phrase that the General Assembly eliminated in 2006. The ruling last week in Todd v. Copeland “undoes at least 15 years of statutory changes” pursued by the adoption bar, said Colleen Marea Quinn, an adoption specialist in Richmond. Before the 2006 revision, Virginia Code § 63.2-1205 required a judge to decide whether withholding consent by a birth parent to an adoption would be “detrimental to the child.”
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