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Wrongful Adoption

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Wrongful Adoption
An adoption that should or would not have occurred had the relevant facts about the child or the child’s biological parents been made available to the adoptive parents. Information may have been deliberately misrepresented or withheld by the adopting agency, resulting in the defrauding of adoptive parents


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The court said that when the adoptive parents relied on the false representation by the agency and were induced to adopt the child and, subsequently suffered a financial loss, the agency had committed wrongful adoption.
Appellate courts in at least 10 states have specifically recognized some form of wrongful adoption since the Ohio Supreme Court first recognized the tort in Burr v.
The Supreme Court of Montana has recognized a cause of action for wrongful adoption, holding the state liable for failing to disclose information to adoptive parents about birth parents with psychological impairments.
 
 
 
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