Legal Issues But the real issue for John and Furnish is whether Ukrainian officials can allow the adoption of a boy by two foreign men who are in a civil partnership under British law. "I don't know what the procedure is to adopt a boy from Ukraine. I don't think I can, because England doesn't have a treaty with Ukraine [on this issue]" John said. "But David is Canadian, so we might be able to work through something like that." Full Article at Spero News