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Read MoreColorado Adoption Law
Permits single LGBT individuals to petition to adopt? Yes.
Colorado law permits any unmarried adult or husband and wife to petition to adopt. COLO. REV. STAT. § 19-5-202.
Permits a same-sex couple to jointly petition to adopt? No explicit prohibition.
There is no explicit prohibition, but no state court has heard the issue of whether same-sex couples can or can not jointly petition to adopt.
Permits a same-sex co-parent to petition to adopt partner’s child or child of the relationship? Yes.
A 2007 law provides that a child may be adopted by a second adult parent upon the written consent of a single parent if the child has no other legal parent.
Updated: Tue, December 08, 2009 - 12:59:59
