You do realize for any US court to recognize an adoption while both legally recognized parents are still alive, requires that the first legal father/mother (most usually the biological father/mother) grant consent?
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That would require Obama SR to be recognized as the legal father with rights...
That never happened...there was no jurisdiction over Barry’s life...
In 1961 a legal marriage would have given SR that right...
However there was no legal marriage...
SR never ever had any interest or interaction with Barry...
One chance photo when he was 10 at the airport during a flythrough visit to Hawaii for some event SR was there for, doesnt prove a lifetime of fatherhood..
Even the stance of SR suggests the photo was not one of a man and his beloved son...
SR is looking off absentmindedly at something else
There appears to be no comradery between the 2...emotional or physical..
Obama Sr. is listed as the biological father on the birth certificate. He is, at common law, entitled to some parental rights even in 1961. Married or not married at the time of birth, Obama's mother must have sued to terminate Obama's Sr. Parental rights before any adoption can be recognized by the state of HI. Because Obama Sr. legally claimed his parental rights with his signature on that birth certificate, those rights cannot be terminated absent due process - i.e. Court Order. To amend Obama's birth certificate, she would have had to provide one of two things to the state - a death certificate of Obama Sr., or a court order either voluntarily or involuntarily terminating Obama Sr's rights.
"There appears to be no comradery between the 2...emotional or physical.."
Whatever "comradery" [sic] there was or wasn't is wholly immaterial to Obama Sr's parental rights that he asserted with the his representation as the biological father on the birth certificate.