Trial court’s denial of plaintiffs’ petition to set aside their Ukrainian adoption of a Ukrainian girl is affirmed as Family Code section 9100 applies only to adoptions granted by a California state court, and as such, the trial court correctly found that section 9100 could not be used to undo the Ukrainian adoption.
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Appellate Information
Filed January 19, 2010
Judges
Opinion by Judge Sims
CounselFor Appellant: Law Offices of Richard G. Fathy and Richard G. Fathy
For Appellee: Edmund G. Brown Jr., Attorney General, Douglas M. Press, Assistant Attorney General, Julie Weng-Gutierrez and Naomi L. Wijewantha, Deputy Attorneys General
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