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Article: Father Gets Custody; Adoptive Parents Must Pay
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- February 9, 2000
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TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - A 16-year-old girl's adoptive parents have
been ordered to give up custody to her biological father and to
make child-support payments to him.
"We thought it was a joke," the girl's adoptive mother said of
the ruling by Pierce County Superior Court Judge Brian Tollefson.
"He's gotten her, and he's gotten our paycheck, too," said the
mother, who also is the girl's paternal aunt.
Tollefson ruled that the adoptive parents were fit to raise the
girl, but he determined it was in her best interest to live with her
biological father.
State law requires that the parent without custody pay child
support, and because the adoptive parents still are the girl's legal
parents, they ...