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In Re Adelynn Naomi Luckey & Anor & In Re Mark Weldon Luckey & Anor (HCT-00-FD-MA-0088-2008) (HCT-00-FD-MA-0088-2008)

High Court · [2009] UGHC 24 · 2009 Application Dismissed AI-generated summary ↓ Download Pin to watchlist Add to matter
Jurisdiction
Uganda
Case Type
Application for review of an adoption order requiring annual progress reports
Decision
Application for review dismissed for failure to substantiate grounds

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Holding

The court declined to review the condition in an adoption order requiring annual progress reports for five years. The applicants failed to provide evidence supporting their claim that the reporting requirement prevented the adopted children from obtaining United States citizenship. A bare assertion without documentary proof was insufficient to justify reviewing the order before the expiry of the five-year period.

Outcome

Application for review dismissed for failure to substantiate grounds

Facts

Mark Weldon Luckey and Stacey Luckey adopted two infant girls pursuant to an adoption order issued on 27 May 2005. The order included a condition requiring the adoptive parents to submit annual progress reports to the Probation and Social Welfare Office and the Family Division Registrar for five years, after which the court would review the position. The applicants sought to have this reporting condition removed, claiming it prevented the children from obtaining United States citizenship because the US government was not satisfied the children had been truly adopted. The applicants provided only a bare assertion to this effect, with no documentary evidence from US authorities. Neither the applicants nor the children appeared in court at the hearing.

Issues

  1. Whether the condition requiring annual progress reports to be submitted to the Probation and Social Welfare Office and the Registrar of the Family Division for five years should be reviewed and removed from the adoption order.

Orders

  • Application dismissed.
  • Court declined to grant the orders sought.

Rules and key headnotes

Adoption — Review of Adoption Order — Burden of Proof
An applicant seeking review of a condition in an adoption order must provide substantive evidence to support their grounds for review; a bare assertion without corroborating documentary or oral evidence is insufficient to discharge this burden.
Adoption — Conditions — Post-Adoption Reporting Requirements
A court may impose conditions requiring adoptive parents to submit periodic progress reports even where such conditions are not expressly provided for in the Children Act, and such conditions will be enforced unless sufficient cause for review is established.
Adoption — Recognition of Foreign Adoption — Children Act s.46(1)(e)
Before granting an adoption order to a foreign applicant, the court must be satisfied that the applicant's country of origin will respect and recognise the adoption order, as required by Section 46(1)(e) of the Children Act.

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In Re_ Adelynn Naomi Luckey & Anor & In Re_ Mark Weldon Luckey & Anor (HCT-00-FD-MA-0088-2008) (HCT-00-FD-MA-0088-2008) [2009] UGHC 24 (24 March 2009)
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