Case Title: Ex parte E.L.

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State: alabama

Court: Alabama Supreme Court

Date: 2016-05-27T00:00:00Z

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REL: 05/27/2016
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SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA
OCTOBER TERM, 2015-2016
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1140595
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Ex parte E.L.
PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI
TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS
(In re: E.L.
v.
V.L.)
(Jefferson Family Court, CS-13-719;
Court of Civil Appeals, 2130683)
On Remand from the United States Supreme Court
PER CURIAM.
1140595
In accordance with V.L. v. E.L., 577 U.S. ___, 136 S.Ct.
1017 (2016), we vacate the September 18, 2015, judgment of
this Court holding that the Court of Civil Appeals and the
Jefferson Family Court erred in giving full faith and credit
to the May 30, 2007, adoption decree entered by the Superior
Court of Fulton County, Georgia, declaring V.L. the adoptive
parent of her then same-sex partner E.L.'s three children.  Ex
parte E.L., [Ms. 1140595, Sept. 18, 2015] ___ So. 3d ___ (Ala.
2015).  In V.L., the United States Supreme Court held that the
adoption decree appeared on its face to have been rendered by
a court of competent jurisdiction and that that presumption of
jurisdiction had not been rebutted.  Inasmuch as there is no
merit in E.L.'s other arguments asking this Court not to
enforce the adoption decree, we affirm the judgment of the
Court of Civil Appeals.
AFFIRMED.
Stuart, Bolin, Shaw, Main, and Wise, JJ., concur.
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