The_RANDy_Corporation
03-20-2001, 12:41 AM
Don't know if anyone cares; I know I don't. But, it has to do w/ the law and with computer and the net, so, here ya go:
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Mar 19, 2001 - 11:39 AM
Court Hearing Resumes in Internet Twins Case
By Sue Leeman
Associated Press Writer
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) - A British couple who adopted infant twin girls through the Internet in the United States will argue their case in London next month, a judge decided Monday.
But Judith and Alan Kilshaw said before the hearing in Birmingham that they were resigned to having the issue decided finally in the United States.
"It's not going to end yet. Whatever happens in Britain it's going to carry on in America," Alan Kilshaw said.
The girls, now 8 months old, are in the custody of local government social services while Judge Andrew Kirkwood sorts through a tangle of claims to the children. Rival claims have been argued in a succession of courts and television chat shows.
The Lord Chancellor's Department said the hearing dealt with points of law and the direction of the case. It said the judge cleared the way for another hearing to begin during the first week in April.
Kirkwood will preside when the case moves to London, the statement said.
The Kilshaws, of Buckley, Wales, adopted the girls in Arkansas after locating them through an Internet adoption service based in California. They named them Belinda and Kimberley.
The adoption was voided March 6 in Arkansas by Pulaski County Probate Judge Mackie Pierce, who ruled that the Kilshaws and the girls' natural mother, Tranda Wecker, had not met the 30-day residency requirement to qualify as state residents at the time of the adoption.
Full story: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAOOUGFIKC.html
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Mar 19, 2001 - 11:39 AM
Court Hearing Resumes in Internet Twins Case
By Sue Leeman
Associated Press Writer
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) - A British couple who adopted infant twin girls through the Internet in the United States will argue their case in London next month, a judge decided Monday.
But Judith and Alan Kilshaw said before the hearing in Birmingham that they were resigned to having the issue decided finally in the United States.
"It's not going to end yet. Whatever happens in Britain it's going to carry on in America," Alan Kilshaw said.
The girls, now 8 months old, are in the custody of local government social services while Judge Andrew Kirkwood sorts through a tangle of claims to the children. Rival claims have been argued in a succession of courts and television chat shows.
The Lord Chancellor's Department said the hearing dealt with points of law and the direction of the case. It said the judge cleared the way for another hearing to begin during the first week in April.
Kirkwood will preside when the case moves to London, the statement said.
The Kilshaws, of Buckley, Wales, adopted the girls in Arkansas after locating them through an Internet adoption service based in California. They named them Belinda and Kimberley.
The adoption was voided March 6 in Arkansas by Pulaski County Probate Judge Mackie Pierce, who ruled that the Kilshaws and the girls' natural mother, Tranda Wecker, had not met the 30-day residency requirement to qualify as state residents at the time of the adoption.
Full story: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAOOUGFIKC.html