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Court adds requirement back to adoption statute  (access required)
Assembly changed the law in 2006

By Alan Cooper
Published: March 11, 2010

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 (VLW 010-7-083) “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 ...
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