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06 November 2014
Issue: 7629 / Categories: Case law , Law digest , In Court
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Adoption

K and another v FY and another [2014] EWHC 3111 (Fam), [2014] All ER (D) 84 (Oct)

Following an application by a married couple to adopt a child that had been living with them for nine years, the Family Division dispensed with the consent as required by the Adoption and Children Act 2002 and made the adoption order as on the facts the child was clearly thriving with the applicants.

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