Vermont § 1-102 - Who may adopt or be adopted
Full text of Vermont Vermont Statutes Online § 1-102 — Who may adopt or be adopted, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 1-102. Who may adopt or be adopted
- (a) Subject to this title, any person may adopt or be adopted by another person for the
purpose of creating the relationship of parent and child between them. (b) If a family unit consists of a parent and the parent’s partner, and adoption is in
the best interests of the child, the partner of a parent may adopt a child of the
parent. Termination of the parent’s parental rights is unnecessary in an adoption
under this subsection. (Added 1995, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
Source: official Vermont text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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