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§ 5-101 Who may adopt adult or emancipated minor § 5-102 Legal consequences of adoption § 5-103 Consent to adoption § 5-104 Jurisdiction and venue § 5-105 Petition for adoption § 5-106 Notice and time of hearing § 5-107 Dispositional hearing § 5-108 Decree of adoption ARTICLE 6. RECORDS OF ADOPTION PROCEEDING: RETENTION, CONFIDENTIALITY ...
In December 2011, Delegate John Doyle introduced a bill to legalize civil unions in West Virginia as one of his last acts before retirement in 2012. [5] [6] It was submitted to the House of Delegates in February 2012 and died without a vote. [7] West Virginia extended hospital visitation rights to same-sex couples through a designated visitor ...
The laws enacted by jurisdictions adopting the UPAA/UPMAA do have variances from state-to-state, but this uniform framework of consistent laws has certainly made it much easier for contract drafters to prepare legally-compliant premarital agreements by codifying the requirements.
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310 and 490 same-sex marriages were performed in West Virginia in 2014 and 2015, respectively, [21] [22] with most performed in Cabell County at 155, followed by Kanawha County at 107, Wood County at 61, Monongalia County at 51, Ohio County at 47, and Harrison County at 40. Same-sex marriages represented about 4% of all marriages conducted in 2015.
The age of consent in Virginia is 18, [93] [95] with a close-in-age exception that allows teenagers aged 15 to 17 to engage in sexual acts but only with a partner younger than 18. The state code defines felony statutory rape as crimes against those under 15, while adults who have sex with minors over 15 can be prosecuted for a misdemeanor ...
In the United States, adoption is the process of creating a legal parent–child relationship between a child and a parent who was not automatically recognized as the child's parent at birth. Most adoptions in the US are adoptions by a step-parent. The second most common type is a foster care adoption. In those cases, the child is unable to ...
Second parent adoption for LGBT couples in Illinois became legal in 1995 after a ruling in favor of K.M. and D.M. (a lesbian couple) to adopt Olivia M. (the biological child of K.M.), and K.L. and M.M. (another lesbian couple) to adopt Michael M. and David M. (David is the biological child of K.L. and Michael is the adoptive child of K.L.). [58]