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Litigation

Sep. 12, 2007

Failed Notifications Lead to Investigations of Adoptions

LOS ANGELES — County officials and child advocates are scrambling to ensure that hundreds of adoptions performed this year are legal, after learning a government contractor failed to notify the birth parents or guardians of their rights.

By Susan McRae
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES ? County officials and child advocates are scrambling to ensure that hundreds of adoptions performed this year are legal, after learning a government contractor failed to notify the birth parents or guardians of their rights.
      Officials were alerted to the problem in June, when they received a tip that Yoakum Investigations, a pr...

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