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ISSUE: Whether or not petitioner, who has remarried, While petitioner insists that joint adoption is no
can singly adopt. longer possible because Olario has filed a case for
dissolution of his marriage to petitioner before the
Los Angeles Superior Court, the filing of said case is of
RULING no moment. It is not equivalent to a decree of
dissolution of marriage. until and unless there is a
It is undisputed that at the time the petitions for judicial decree for the dissolution of the marriage
adoption were filed, petitioner had already between Monina and Olario, the marriage still
remarried. She filed the petition by herself, without subsists.
being joined by her husband Olario. The law is explicit.