Michael Wells-Greco comments in the BBC on a UK Supreme Court adoption ruling
min readThe UK Supreme Court has rejected an attempt to overturn the adoption of two sisters, reaffirming that adoption is intended to be final and permanent except in rare circumstances.
The court noted that allowing adoptions to be revoked could undermine the stability of the adoption system, even where the young people involved had chosen to return to live with their birth mother.
The applicant made clear that she had not rejected the children, X and Y, rather she brought the case at their request after they resumed contact with their birth mother, who also supported the application.
Michael Wells-Greco, Partner in our Family team, comments in the BBC:
[There is] no easy legal solution where an adoption later breaks down, [but the Supreme Court has] now made it clear that adoption is meant to be permanent. The court also stressed that, in law, an adopted child is treated no differently from a child born to their parents and just as parenthood cannot be undone in those cases, adoption cannot simply be reversed.
Read the full article in the BBC here.
