The Allens said they agreed because they considered her a friend. But Wecker took the infants to Arkansas, where the adoption by the Kilshaws was arranged. The Allens maintain the Arkansas adoption was illegal because the birth mother had not been a state resident for 30 days, as is required. Kilshaw said he and his wife turned to America for adoption after trying fertilization treatments and looking to other countries. He said they did not try to adopt in Britain because they felt they would be turned down despite recent efforts to make the process easier there.
Private adoptions are illegal in Britain.
No politician used influence to get a wealthy Canadian family a tax break worth hundreds of millions of dollars, a former Revenue Canada deputy minister told a federal court judge Friday.