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| Lorraine |
Utah keeps calling us back--this time with a SECOND good decision where a father is fighting for the right to raise his own daughter. One of our readers noted that a judge in the notoriously conservative 4th district (think BYU) overturned an illegal adoption and is
giving the adoptive family 60 days to return the child to her biological
father. The agency, Adoption Center of Choice, broke Utah's own law requiring the consent and relinquishment of the legal father, Terry Achane, since he
and the girl's mother were married at the time. In every state, married fathers have the right to raise their own children.
The Provo judge, while noting the birth mother
had deceived her husband, the adoption agency and the prospective
parents, has given the adoptive couple 60 days to give the child back. According to Brooke Adams of the Salt Lake Tribune:
