Court Opinion

ID: 9765170
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:54:23.992025+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:54:01.460836
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POPE, Senior Appellate Judge,
concurring fully and specially in Case No. A10A1721, and concurring in the judgment only in Case No. A10A1720.
While I concur fully in Case No. A10A1721, I write separately only to point out that while I sympathize with the concerns raised by the trial court, it nevertheless remains true that neither our precedent nor the statutory law of this state prohibit unmarried couples from adopting children.
With respect to Case No. A10A1720, I concur in the judgment only. The issue of whether the trial court erred in directing DFACS to remove A. C. from Ms. Goudeau’s home and place her with an appropriate custodian was rendered moot by the majority decision in Case No. A10A1721. Accordingly, the substantive issue of whether the trial court erred in its directive need not be addressed on appeal.