Hugh Jackman Officially Adopts Baby Ava  5/27/06

Hugh Jackman has officially adopted baby daughter AVA after a tearful court hearing earlier this month (MAY06).

The actor and his wife Deborra Lee-Furness became parents to the little girl last year (05) through surrogacy and spent months cutting through red tape to make her his second adopted child.

Jackman admits the adoption hearing was a truly joyful experience: "We did the official adoption last week in her home county so we went there and we went to this little courthouse and the judge was so happy because he spends his day with divorces and things like that, so to have an adoption is a happy occasion.

"We, of course, cried the entire time and Ava just flirted with the judge, picked up his gavel and started eating it."

Jackman and his wife adopted son OSCAR in May 2000.