Madonna to Appeal Adoption Ruling

Madonna instructed her attorney to appeal a ruling by a judge in Malawi denying her adoption of a three year-old girl named Mercy James. The attorney will appeal to the Malawi Supreme Court.

To adopt a child in Malawi the prospective parent must have residency there for 18 to 24 months before a request to adopt a child there. Madonna got around that rule with David Banda, and after arriving days before her request this time, she expect the courts to bend the rules again.

Madonna’s lawyer Alan Chinula was so confident Madonna would get the adoption approved, he said before that hearing:

"I am not sleeping sleepless nights over this. I don’t see any law in Malawi that can stop this adoption."

Part of the law is the residency requirement. What he didn’t expect was an honest judge to rule against them.

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