Ex parte E.L.
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REL: 05/27/2016 Notice: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the advance sheets of Southern Reporter. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Alabama Appellate Courts, 300 Dexter Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36104-3741 ((334) 2290649), of any typographical or other errors, in order that corrections may be made before the opinion is printed in Southern Reporter. SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA OCTOBER TERM, 2015-2016 ____________________ 1140595 ____________________ Ex parte E.L. PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS (In re: E.L. v. V.L.) (Jefferson Family Court, CS-13-719; Court of Civil Appeals, 2130683) On Remand from the United States Supreme Court PER CURIAM. 1140595 In accordance with V.L. v. E.L., 577 U.S. ___, 136 S.Ct. 1017 (2016), we vacate the September 18, 2015, judgment of this Court holding that the Court of Civil Appeals and the Jefferson Family Court erred in giving full faith and credit to the May 30, 2007, adoption decree entered by the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, declaring V.L. the adoptive parent of her then same-sex partner E.L.'s three children. Ex parte E.L., [Ms. 1140595, Sept. 18, 2015] ___ So. 3d ___ (Ala. 2015). In V.L., the United States Supreme Court held that the adoption decree appeared on its face to have been rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction and that that presumption of jurisdiction had not been rebutted. Inasmuch as there is no merit in E.L.'s other arguments asking this Court not to enforce the adoption decree, we affirm the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals. AFFIRMED. Stuart, Bolin, Shaw, Main, and Wise, JJ., concur. 2
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