MATTER OF ADOPTION OF W.A.T.

No. 890053.

808 P.2d 1083 (1991)

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF W.A.T., V.E.T., J.T.T., J.S.T., J.L.T., and B.D.T., Minors. Pat JOHANSON, Janet Johanson, and Calvin Johanson, Intervenors and Appellees, v. Vaughn FISCHER and Sharane Fischer, Petitioners and Appellants.

Supreme Court of Utah.

March 26, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Nuffer, Steven E. Snow, St. George, for petitioners and appellants.

Dale R. Chamberlain, Calvin L. Rampton, Timothy B. Anderson, Jan C. Graham, Michael Patrick O'Brien, Michael R. Shaw, St. George, for intervenors and appellees.

V. Lowry Snow, St. George, for W.A.T.

R. Paul Van Dam, Paul M. Tinker, Salt Lake City, for amicus State of Utah.

Patricia W. Christensen, Salt Lake City, for amicus Utah Children.

Brad L. England, Salt Lake City, for amicus American Civil Liberties Union.


DURHAM, Justice:

This is an appeal from an order of the district court dismissing petitioners' petition to adopt six children, five of whom are minors, on the ground that petitioners have organized their family according to their religious belief in plural marriage. We reverse.

Petitioners Vaughn Fischer and Sharane Fischer are legally married and reside in Washington County with their four children. Also residing with them is Katrina Stubbs, whom Vaughn also...

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