“North Carolina court order may boost same-sex adoption”

News Observer: “A three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals this week unanimously upheld Sen. Julia Boseman’s 2005 adoption of her partner’s child, entitling Boseman to joint custody. Boseman, a Wilmington Democrat, adopted the child in Durham because it is one of only two counties in the state where judges have allowed such adoptions. ‘Now I think it’s very clear that if a couple of the same sex choose to go out and adopt the child … that homosexual couples can adopt children,’ said Jim Lea, a Wilmington domestic law specialist who was one of Boseman’s attorneys in the custody case.”