ZAINAB MUDALLAL, Capital News Service
COLLEGE PARK– It took Doug and Chris Maulden-Locke eight months to get through pre-adoption background checks and an extensive home study and just 10 days to find a baby to adopt. But the same-sex couple wasn’t sure what would happen when they went before a Montgomery County judge in February.
“We were in suits, [our future daughter Mya] was in a dress, the birth mother was there, and the judge said,