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2007 Arkansas Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (2007)

handle is hein.sag/sagar0008 and id is 1 raw text is: STATE OF ARKANSAS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL DUSTIN McDANIEL Opinion No. 2007-248 September 5, 2007 Mr. Robert S. Shafer, Esquire Friday, Eldredge & Clark 2000 Regions Center 400 West Capitol Avenue Little Rock, AR 72201-3522 Dear Mr. Shafer: I am writing in response to your request for certification, pursuant to A.C.A. § 7-9- 107 (Repl. 2000), of the popular name and ballot title for a proposed initiated measure. Your popular name and ballot title are as follows: Popular Name AN ACT PROVIDING THAT UNMARRIED, COHABITING SEXUAL PARTNERS, BOTH SAME-SEX AND OPPOSITE SEX, MAY NOT ADOPT OR BE FOSTER PARENTS OF CHILDREN LESS THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD Ballot Title A PROPOSED ACT PROVIDING THAT A MINOR MAY NOT BE ADOPTED OR PLACED IN A FOSTER HOME IF THE INDIVIDUAL SEEKING TO ADOPT OR TO SERVE AS A FOSTER PARENT IS COHABITING WITH A SEXUAL PARTNER OUTSIDE OF A MARRIAGE WHICH IS VALID UNDER THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THIS STATE; STATING THAT THE FOREGOING PROHIBITION APPLIES EQUALLY TO COHABITING SAME-SEX AND OPPOSITE-SEX PARTNERS; STATING THAT THE ACT WILL NOT AFFECT 323 CENTER STREET, SuiTE 200 * LrrLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 72201 TELEPHONE (501) 682-2007 * FAx (501) 682-8084 INTERNET WEBSITE * http://www.ag.state.ar.us/