US EditionVirginia Supreme Court rules US Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan will stand
Virginia Supreme Court blocks Afghan relatives from contesting adoption under six-month finality law, ending a multi-year legal dispute over the child’s custody.
- The Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home, reversing lower court rulings that found the adoption was void.
- The child was injured in a raid in Afghanistan in 2019 where her parents and siblings were killed, and the U.S. government initially tried to reunite her with Afghan relatives.
- Courts in Virginia granted the Marine custody and adoption, continuing to claim she was the daughter of foreign fighters, despite the Afghan government's determination of her Afghan citizenship.
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Virginia Supreme Court rules U.S. Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan will stand
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of a U.S. government decision to reunite her with her Afghan family. The decision likely ends a bitter, yearslong legal battle over the girl’s fate.
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Virginia Supreme Court rules US Marine’s adoption of an Afghan war orphan will stand
By JULIET LINDERMAN and CLAIRE GALOFARO, Associated Press The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of a U.S. government decision to reunite her with her Afghan family. The decision likely ends a bitter, yearslong legal battle over the girl’s fate. In 2020, a judge in Fluvanna County, Virginia, granted Joshua and Stephanie Mast an adoption of the child, who …
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Virginia Supreme Court rules US Marine's adoption of an Afghan war orphan will stand
The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of the U.S. government’s decision to reunite her with her Afghan family.
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