The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 15A V.S.A. § 1-102)
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§ 1-102. Who may adopt or be adopted
(a) Subject to this title, any person may adopt or be adopted by another person for the
purpose of creating the relationship of parent and child between them.
(b) If a family unit consists of a parent and the parent’s partner, and adoption is in
the best interests of the child, the partner of a parent may adopt a child of the
parent. Termination of the parent’s parental rights is unnecessary in an adoption
under this subsection. (Added 1995, No. 161 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)