User:Joe Decker/Third

// Really just a sketch so far, approaching GNG although I'd expect ONEEVENT objections. I'd love to get a full copy of the Vermont Law Review article.

// Additional source: http://www.advocate.com/world/2015/05/03/argentina-makes-history-three-parent-birth-certificate

// http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/07/16889720-florida-judge-approves-birth-certificate-listing-three-parents?lite

// http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/us/a-california-bill-would-legalize-third-and-fourth-parent-adoptions.html?_r=0

// The blake's link is dead.

Third-parent Adoption is a term to describe legal decisions or standards which allow three or more adults to be legally recognized as parents to a child.

Early Cases
In a limited number of cases, different jurisdictions have enabled the legal adoption of a child by a third parent. The laws of Delaware and the District of Columbia specifically leave room for this possibility.

Circa 1998, a San Francisco Superior Court allowed a third-parent adoption.

In 2007, an Ottawa court allowed a lesbian woman the status of a third parent to her partner's son.

California
In 2012, the California state legislature considered a bill, SB 1476, which would allow judges to grant three or more adults the legal status of parent if the judge felt that that would be in the best interests of the child.