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Bareebe v Mbabazi (Adoption Cause 55 of 2023) [2024] UGHCFD 85 (18 October 2024)
The High Court granted Phiona Quincy Bareebe an adoption order for Beny Mbabazi, finding the adoption met statutory requirements and served the child’s best interests.
Washington Amy Elizabeth (Adoption Cause No. 7 of 2021) [2023] UGHCFD 197 (15 February 2023)
The High Court dismissed an adoption petition by a sole female applicant seeking to adopt a male child, finding no pleaded or proved special circumstances.
IN RE Rehema Naigaga & Angel Namusubo (Children) by Petros Lutras & Aikaterini Zisimopoulou (Misc. Cause No.22 of 2019) [2019] UGHC 12 (8 July 2019)
The High Court granted Greek nationals an adoption order for two Ugandan children, waiving the one-year residency requirement because exceptional circumstances justified it.
In Re: Mumbere Pavin (Infant ) (Adoption Cause No. 0001 of 2019) [2019] UGHCFD 4 (9 May 2019)
The High Court of Uganda granted an adoption petition for Mumbere Pavine, appointing Adriano Rosa Vieira and Jodie Lynn Vieira as adoptive parents and allowing the child to emigrate with them.
In Re: JJuuko & Magezi(infants) (Adoption Cause No 200 of 2014) [2015] UGHCFD 205 (18 March 2015)
The High Court of Uganda granted a joint adoption application by New Zealand spouses Stephen and Sharron Caldwell for two orphaned Ugandan children.
In Re: Tusabiri (an infant) (Adoption Cause No 252 of 2013) [2014] UGHCFD 30 (8 May 2014)
The court found that it had jurisdiction to hear the adoption petition as the applicant is a non-citizen and the child is a Ugandan national. The applicant satisfied all statutory requirements for adoption, including age, residency, fostering period, absence of a criminal record, and positive recommendations from both Ugandan and Dutch authorities. The child, having been abandoned and with no known parents, was in need of a permanent home and care, which the applicant had already been providing for over three years. The court determined that the adoption was in the best interests of the child…
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In Re: Andrew Kintu (an infant) (Family Cause No.28 of 2014) [2014] UGHCFD 10 (11 February 2014)
The High Court granted legal guardianship of abandoned infant Andrew Kintu to Tanner and Amanda Sogge, and allowed them to travel to the United States to complete adoption.
In Re: Kalema (an infant) (Family Cause 220 of 2013) [2014] UGHCFD 4 (20 January 2014)
The High Court granted legal guardianship of an abandoned child to foreign applicants and allowed them to travel with him to the USA to complete adoption.
Re:In The Matter Of David Meyer Sempijja (Family Cause No. 83 of 2010) [2010] UGHC 92 (15 July 2010)
The High Court of Uganda granted an adoption order to American applicants for an infant, finding exceptional circumstances based on the child’s poor health and welfare.
In Re: Adelynn Naomi Luckey and Janae Martha-Ann Luckey (HCT-00-FD-MA-0097-2009) [2009] UGHC 36 (17 June 2009)
The High Court of Uganda varied an adoption order, reducing a five-year reporting condition to three years and directing issuance of a final adoption order.
